³⁷ And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.

²⁸ He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:

²² May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living.

³⁴ For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.

²¹ A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

²² He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

²⁹ Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

³⁰ Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

³¹ Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

³² In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

³³ Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

³⁴ Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.

³⁵ They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.