3. Do not give your strength to the women, and your ways to destroy kings.
4. It is not for the kings, O Lemuel; drinking wine is not for the kings, nor is strong drink for rulers.
5. Or else he will drink and forget what has been decreed, and he will pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
6. Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress.
7. He will drink and forget his poverty, and his misery he will not remember any more.