Proverbs 31:4 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 31:4

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

KJV

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ASV

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes to say, Where is strong drink?

WEB

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,

YLT

Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

DBT

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers [to say], Where is the strong drink?

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Cross-references

19 verses on the floor

Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Ecclesiastes 10:17
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Isaiah 5:22
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
1 Timothy 5:23
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Hosea 4:11–12
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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The proper use of such drinks is to restore tone to feeble bodies and depressed minds (compare Ps 104:15). Open . . . cause--Plead for those who cannot plead for themselves, as the orphan, stranger, &c. (compare Ps 72:12; Isa 1:17). appointed to destruction--who are otherwise ruined by their oppressors (compare Pr 29:14, 16).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

No, they are worse than the beasts that perish. All Christians are made to our God kings and priests, and must apply this to themselves. It is not for Christians, it is not for Christians, to drink to excess; they debase themselves if they do; it ill becomes the heirs of the kingdom and the spiritual priests, Lev. x.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H794123× in canon H3196141× in canon H8354217× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 31:4PRO 20:1 ISA 28:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 31:4PRO 20:1 EPH 5:18
PRO 31:4PRO 20:1 HOS 4:11
PRO 31:4PRO 20:1 1CO 6:10
PRO 31:4PRO 20:1 GAL 5:21
PRO 31:4HAB 2:5 PRO 31:4-5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 31:4ISA 5:22 ISA 5:11
PRO 31:4ISA 5:22 HAB 2:15

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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