Proverbs 23:
²⁹ Who has anguish? Who has bitter sorrow?
    Who constantly complains and argues?
    Who stumbles and falls and hurts himself?
    Who’s the one with bloodshot eyes?
³⁰ It’s the one who drinks too much
    and is always looking for a brew.
    Make sure it’s never you!
³¹ And don’t be drunk with wine^[p]
    but be known as one who enjoys the company
    of the lovers of God,^[q]
32 For drunkenness brings the sting of a serpent,
    like the fangs of a viper^[r] spreading poison into your soul.
³³ It will make you hallucinate, mumble,
    and speak words that are perverse.
³⁴ You’ll be like a seasick sailor being tossed to and fro,
    dizzy and out of your mind.
³⁵ You’ll awake only to say, “What hit me?
    I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck!”
    Yet off you’ll go, looking for another drink!

Footnotes:

1. Proverbs 23:19 The Aramaic is “Set up my doctrines in your heart.”
2. Proverbs 23:20 Translated from the Aramaic and the Septuagint.
3. Proverbs 23:23 The Hebrew word here literally means “create the truth” or “give birth to truth” or “possess the truth.” This Hebrew word is also used for God as the Creator. See Gen. 14:19 and 22.
4. Proverbs 23:31 As translated from the Septuagint.
5. Proverbs 23:31 As translated from the Septuagint and a marginal reading of the Hebrew. The Aramaic is “Meditate on righteousness.” The Septuagint adds a line not found in Hebrew or Aramaic that describes the unflattering life of a drunk: “You will walk around naked as a pestle!”
6. Proverbs 23:32 Or “horned serpent” or “dragon.” This is the Hebrew word basilisk, which comes from a root word meaning “little king.” It becomes an emblem of the poison of demonic power that can cause addictions and rule over the soul like a “little king.”