Proverbs 20:1 (BSB)
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
From Proverbs 20. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 20:1
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 20:1: Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise. (a) By wine here is meant him that is given to wine, and so by strong drink.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 20:1: Pro 20:1 This proverb warns against the debauchery with which free-thinking is intimately associated. Wine is a mocker, mead boisterous; And no one who is overtaken thereby is wise. The article stands with יין. Ewald maintains that in 10:1-22:6 the article occurs only here and at Pro 21:31, and that it is here, as the lxx shows, not original. Both statements are incorrect.