⁷ For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

¹³ For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

¹⁵ For these men are not overcome with wine, as it seems to you, for it is only the third hour of the day;

³⁴ Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

¹³ With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

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.

¹⁴ For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

³⁵ For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.

⁴ They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

⁵ In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.

⁴ My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

⁵ They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.

¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

¹³ In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

³⁶ And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.

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.