Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Do not try to prove your strength with wine, for wine has been the ruin of many.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Do not try to prove your strength by wine-drinking, for wine has destroyed many.
Good News Translation®
Don't try to prove your manhood by how much you can drink. Wine has been the ruin of many.
Wycliffe Bible
Do not thou excite them that be diligent in wine [or Busy men in wine do not thou stir (or Do not thou stir up men busy with wine)]; for why wine hath destroyed many men.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Do not aim to be valiant over wine, for wine has destroyed many.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Do not try to prove your strength by wine-drinking, for wine has destroyed many.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Do not try to prove your strength by wine-drinking, for wine has destroyed many.
Common English Bible © 2011
Don’t demonstrate your bravado in wine drinking, because wine has destroyed many.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Let not wine be the proof of your strength, for wine has been the ruin of many.
Revised Standard Version
Do not aim to be valiant over wine, for wine has destroyed many.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Do not try to prove your strength by wine-drinking, for wine has destroyed many.