Proverbs 23:20-21
Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat. For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Proverbs 23
2 songs meet this passage
“I think I'll take my whiskey neat”
Too Sweet · Hozier
strains against Proverbs 23:20-21
The narrator romanticizes late nights and drink as identity, which Proverbs warns leads toward poverty and drowsiness, not real freedom.
“it's been the ruin of many a poor boy”
House of the Rising Sun · The Animals
resonates with Proverbs 23:20-21
The song's picture of ruin through drink and excess matches this warning almost exactly, down to the poverty that follows.
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