Proverbs 31:5 BBE

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

⁴  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  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.

⁶  Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

⁷  Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.