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Sirach 26:8 "There is great anger when a wife is drunken; she will not hide her shame." 

 

I really don't have much to say about this! We do tend to do and say shameful things when we've had too much to drink. Alcohol can be a huge contributing factor to much of our sin. It's best to avoid it as much as possible, although that's hard to do when it is so ubiquitous in our society. I think sometimes it might be easier to avoid situations where alcohol will be flowing freely, rather than put ourselves in temptation's path. Finally, and obviously, this goes for drunken husbands as well (and Sirach does not limit his warnings to women, he calls out drunkenness in several places, including Sirach 31:30).