It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’ lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
⛓ Read Proverbs 31 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The counsel that rulers should not crave wine lest they pervert judgment resonates with 'not a drinker' among qualifications for one who governs God's household. A faint thematic link within the broader wisdom critique of drunken leadership.
Low confidenceThe wisdom warning that rulers should not be 'given to wine' lest they pervert justice resonates with the overseer being 'not given to wine.' Faint and contested verbal echo within the leadership-qualification cluster.
Low confidence