Proverbs 31:5
Good News Translation
When they drink, they forget the laws and ignore the rights of people in need.

New Revised Standard Version
or else they will drink and forget what has been decreed, and will pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

Contemporary English Version
Drinking makes you forget your responsibilities, and you mistreat the poor.

New American Bible
Lest in drinking they forget what has been decreed, and violate the rights of any who are in need.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

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Habakkuk 2:5 And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like hell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will gather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all people.

Context
The Words of King Lemuel
4Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth: 5And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.6Give strong drink to them that are sad; and wine to them that are grieved in mind:…
Cross References
Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.

Leviticus 10:9
You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:

Deuteronomy 16:19
And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.

1 Kings 20:12
And it came to pass, when Benadad heard this word, that he and the kings were drinking in pavilions, and he said to his servants: Beset the city. And they beset it.

Proverbs 17:15
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Proverbs 18:5
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.

Proverbs 31:4
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