“Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.”
Proverbs 31:3 (BSB)
Context Reading
1These are the words of King Lemuel — the burden that his mother taught him: 2What shall I say, O my son? What, O son of my womb? What, O son of my vows? 3Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings. 4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, 5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.