Slaves of strong drinks have no time, nor inclination, for useful endeavor. Early and late, their craving, like a burning flame, consumes what is good in them.
Drink and Music. The art of music is of divine origin, and its proper purpose is to enable man to praise the Creator and to consider the marvelous operations of his hands. (v. 12) But the music of the drunkard drowns the nobler thoughts and sinks the victim to the level of the lower brutes. The music of satan in bar rooms and places of revelry, where intoxicants flow, is poison to all spiritual and intellectual life, and a source of destruction of nations. (vv. 14-17)