Proverbs 23:20
Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Noli esse in conviviis potatorum, nec in comessationibus eorum qui carnes ad vescendum conferunt :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ ἴσθι οἰνοπότης, μηδὲ ἐκτείνου συμβολαῖς, κρεῶν ἀγορασμοῖς·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַל תְּהִ֥י בְסֹֽבְאֵי יָ֑יִן בְּזֹלֲלֵ֖י בָשָׂ֣ר לָֽמוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Eat. Such feasts tend to corrupt the morals, and to misspend time.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor, Chapter II. On Drinking
Such a life as this (if life it must be called, which is spent in idleness, in agitation about voluptuous indulgences, and in the hallucinations of debauchery) the divine Wisdom looks on with contempt, and commands her children, “Be not a wine-bibber, nor spend your money in the purchase of flesh; for every drunkard and fornicator shall come to beggary, and every sluggard shall be clothed in tatters and rags.” For every one that is not awake to wisdom, but is steeped in wine, is a sluggard. …