^{3 Ref} Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

^{4 Ref} It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

^{5 Ref} For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.