משלי 31:4
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Context
This verse from משלי Chapter 31 connects to 10 cross-references. The Words of King Lemuel taught by his mother: warnings against women and wine that could destroy rulers, and urging defense of the poor and needy. The book concludes with the famous acrostic poem of the excellent wife who manages …
תרגומים נוספים
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes to say, Where is strong drink?
Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?
הפניות צולבות
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the …
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, …
And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her …
And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, …
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his …
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused …
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.