20:1 {a} Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.
(a) By wine here is meant him that is given to wine, and so by strong drink.
20:1 A mocker - Wine immoderately drunk makes men mockers. Raging - Makes men full of rage.
20:1 It seems hard to believe that men of the greatest abilities, as well as the ignorant, should render themselves fools and madmen, merely for the taste or excitement produced by strong liquors. 2. How formidable kings are to those who provoke them! how much more foolish then is it to provoke the King of kings! 3. To engage in quarrels is the greatest folly that can be. Yield, and even give up just demands, for peace' sake. 4. He who labours and endures hardship in his seed-time for eternity, will be properly diligent as to his earthly business.
