Verse List for PROV 20:1

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B I ◄ ↨ Prov 20:1 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Wine is a mocker and strong drink makes you boisterous, ⇔ → and everyone who staggers due to it, isn’t wise.

OET-LV is_a _mocker (the)_wine[fn] is_noisy strong _drink and_all one _who_staggers in/on/over_him/it not he _is _wise.

ULT The wine, is a mocker, beer, is a brawler, ⇔ and everyone who staggers by it is not wise.

UST Drinking a lot of intoxicating drink causes people to start ridiculing and fighting others; ⇔  becoming drunk is very foolish.

BSB & MSB Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, ⇔  and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. ⇔  Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

NET Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; ⇔ whoever goes astray by them is not wise.

LSV Wine [is] a scorner—strong drink [is] noisy,
And any going astray in it is not wise.

FBV Wine turns you into a mocker, alcohol makes you aggressive; you're stupid to be deceived[fn] by drink.

T4T Drinking a lot of wine or other strong drinks causes people to start fighting; ⇔  it is foolish to become drunk/intoxicated.

LEB • Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,
• and any who go astray by it are not wise.

BBE Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

Moff Wine means mockery, liquor means brawling ⇔  there is no sense in reeling under drink.

JPS Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whosoever reeleth thereby is not wise.

ASV Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; ⇔ And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

DRA Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith shell not be wise.

YLT Wine [is] a scorner — strong drink [is] noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

Drby Wine is a scorner, strong drink is raging; and whoso erreth thereby is not wise.

RV Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
(Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whosoever erreth/errs thereby is not wise.)

SLT Wine is mocking, strong drink is noisy: and every one going astray by it will not be wise.

Wbstr Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.

KJB-1769 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

KJB-1611 ¶ Wine is a mocker, strong drinke is raging: and whosoeuer is deceiued thereby, is not wise.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Wine maketh a man to be scornefull, & strong drinke causeth a man to be vnquiet: who so delighteth therin shall not be wyse.
(Wine maketh/makes a man to be scornful, and strong drink causeth a man to be unquiet: whoso/whoever delighteth/delights therein shall not be wise.)

Gnva Wine is a mocker and strong drinke is raging: and whosoeuer is deceiued thereby, is not wise.
(Wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby, is not wise.)

Cvdl Wyne is a voluptuous thinge, & drockennes causeth sedicion: who so delyteth therin, shal neuer be wyse.
(Wyne is a voluptuous thing, and drockennes causeth seditionn: whoso/whoever delighteth/delights therein, shall never be wise.)

Wycl Wiyn is a letcherouse thing and drunkenesse is ful of noise; who euere delitith in these, schal not be wijs.
(Wiyn is a letcherouse thing and drunkenness is full of noise; who ever delitith in these, shall not be wise.)

Luth Der Wein macht lose Leute und stark Getränk macht wild; wer dazu Lust hat, wird nimmer weise.
(The wine power lose people/folk and stark beverage power wild; who to_that/in_addition desire/lust(n) has, becomes never wise.)

ClVg [Luxuriosa res vinum, et tumultuosa ebrietas: quicumque his delectatur non erit sapiens.
([Lighturiosa thing wine, and commotionosa ebrietas: whoever his is_delighted not/no will_be wise.)

UHB לֵ֣ץ הַ֭⁠יַּין הֹמֶ֣ה שֵׁכָ֑ר וְ⁠כָל־שֹׁ֥גֶה בּ֝֗⁠וֹ לֹ֣א יֶחְכָּֽם׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἀκολάστον οἶνος, καὶ ὑβριστικὸν μέθη, πᾶς δὲ ἄφρων τοιούτοις συμπλέκεται.

BrTr Wine is an intemperate thing, and strong drink full of violence: but every fool is entangled with them.