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Otherwise, they drink and forget what they have decreed
    and change the standard of justice for all oppressed people.
Give liquor to a person who is dying
    and wine to one who feels resentful.
Such a person drinks
    and forgets his poverty
        and does not remember his trouble anymore.

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lest they drink(A) and forget what has been decreed,(B)
    and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.
Let beer be for those who are perishing,
    wine(C) for those who are in anguish!
Let them drink(D) and forget their poverty
    and remember their misery no more.

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