Holy Scripture
Proverbs 31:6
A church father on this verse
“Moreover console each other with the following words; it is a good medicine that Solomon has for sorrow; for he bids wine be given to the sorrowful; saying this to us, the labourers in the vineyard: "Give," therefore, "your wine to those that are in sorrow," not that wine which produces drunkenness, plots against the…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:
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4Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine:
5lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and be not able to judge the poor rightly.
— Proverbs 31:6 —
7that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more.
8Open your mouth with the word of God, and judge all fairly.