Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
A luxurious thing. Hebrew, "a scoffer. "Chaldean, "renders one a scoffer. "
Drunkenness. Hebrew ssocor, any strong drink, particularly palm-wine. Intemperance places the strongest obstacles in the way of wisdom. It causes a person to mock at all sacred things, and to be quarrelsome, chap. xxiii. 29., and Ephesians v. 18.