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Isaiah Chapter 5 verse 22 Holy Bible

ASV Isaiah 5:22

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
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BBE Isaiah 5:22

Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
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DARBY Isaiah 5:22

Woe unto them that are mighty for drinking wine, and men valiant to mix strong drink;
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KJV Isaiah 5:22

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
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WBT Isaiah 5:22

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WEB Isaiah 5:22

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, And champions at mixing strong drink;
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YLT Isaiah 5:22

Wo `to' the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine. The sixth woe seems at first sight a repetition of the second. But there is this difference, that the drinkers in the present verse do not succumb to their liquor, or remain at the banquet all day, but proceed to the business of their lives, attend courts and judge causes, but with brain obfuscated and moral vision bedimmed, so that they are easily induced to pervert justice on receipt of a bribe. The sixth woe may be considered to be pronounced rather upon their corruption than upon their drinking, and so to be really quite distinct from the second (comp. Proverbs 31:4, 5).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) Woe unto them that are mighty to drink. . . . strong drink.--The words in part reproduce the "woe" of Isaiah 5:11-12, but with the distinctive feature that there the revellers were simply of the careless self-indulgent type, while here they are identified with the unjust and corrupt rulers. They were heroes and valiant men only in and for their cups. To such men it seemed a light matter to acquit the guilty and condemn the guiltless. The prophet dwells on the familiar truth, Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur. The Targum, it may be noticed, has "the mammon of falsehood" (comp. Luke xvi, 9), for the "reward" of the Hebrew.