Holy Scripture
Proverbs 23:20
A church father on this verse
“Do not be among winebibbers, etc. For to bring meats to be eaten, is in conversation of derogation, to repeatedly mention the vices of neighbors, about whose punishment it is immediately added:”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20Be not a wine bibber, Neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh:
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18For if thou shouldest keep these things, thou shalt have posterity; And thy hope shall not be removed.
19Hear, my son, and be wise, And rightly direct the thoughts of thy heart.
— Proverbs 23:20 —
21For every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; And every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.
22Hearken, my son, to thy father which begot thee, And despise not thy mother because she is grown old.