Proverbs 23:20 (BSB)

Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:19-28: Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go. Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: "Here, my son, and be wise, Pro 23:19.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:20: Be not amongst winebibbers,.... Who drink to excess, otherwise wine may be drank, provided moderation is used; but it is not good to be in company with, excessive drinkers of it, lost a habit of excessive drinking should be acquired; among riotous eaters of flesh; flesh may be lawfully eaten, but not in a riotous manner, so as to indulge to gluttony and surfeiting; nor...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:20: riotous . . . flesh--prodigal, or eating more than necessary. Instead of "their flesh" (compare Margin), better, "flesh to them," that is, used for pleasure.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 23:19-21: Pro 23:19-21 Among the virtues which flow from the fear of God, temperance is made prominent, and the warning against excess is introduced by the general exhortation to wisdom: 19 Hear thou, my son, and become wise, And direct thy heart straight forward on the way.