Proverbios 23:30

30 ¡Del que no suelta la botella de vinoni deja de probar licores!

Proverbios 23:30 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 23:30

They that tarry long at the wine
At drinking it. Do not care to stir from it when at it; spend whole days and nights in it, and are overcome by it, and so bring upon them all the above evils; they that go to seek mixed wine,
not wine mixed with water, as used commonly by temperate people in hot countries; but either mixed with spices, to make it more palatable, or with different sorts of wine, some very strong, and more heady and intoxicating; or mere wine meant; wine "poured out", as the word ^F17 signifies, where there is plenty of it; and such as are given to wine go and seek out such places, and where the best is to be had. So the Targum,

``they go and seek the house of mixture, or mixed wine;''

or, as the Syriac version,

``the house of feasting;''

and so the Arabic:

``where there are junketing and drinking bouts,''

as the Septuagint.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (Komm) "calicibus epotandi", V. L.

Proverbios 23:30 In-Context

28 Se pone al acecho, como un bandido,y multiplica la infidelidad de los hombres.

29 ¿De quién son los lamentos? ¿De quién los pesares?¿De quién son los pleitos? ¿De quién las quejas?¿De quién son las heridas gratuitas?¿De quién los ojos morados?

30 ¡Del que no suelta la botella de vinoni deja de probar licores!

31 No te fijes en lo rojo que es el vino,ni en cómo brilla en la copa,ni en la suavidad con que se desliza;

32 porque acaba mordiendo como serpientey envenenando como víbora.