Geneva Bible Notes Reformed @genevanotes

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 @keilanddelitzsch

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.