Proverbs 31:1-6

¹The words of Lemuel, the king; the vision by which his mother taught him.

²What, my darling? what, the darling of my womb? what, the darling of my desires? (What, my darling? what is it, the darling of my womb? what is it, the answer to my prayers?)

³Give thou not thy chattel to women (or Give thou not all thy substance to women), and thy riches to do away kings.

⁴A! Lemuel, do not thou give wine to kings; for no private there is, where drunkenness reigneth. (O Lemuel! do not thou give wine to kings; for there is no secret place, where drunkenness can reign.)

⁵Lest peradventure they drink, and forget dooms, and change the cause of the sons of a poor man. (Lest perhaps they drink, and forget justice, and pervert the cause of the poor.)

⁶Give ye cider to them that mourn, and wine to them that be of bitter soul.