Proverbs 31:5

“Lest they drink and forget the law,

and pervert the justice of all the afflicted.”

I can't help but replace the word drink with sin. Lest they sin and forget the law, and pervert the justice of all the afflicted. We so often see just a taste of sin in someones life haze the vision in how they see themselves and others. We do it thinking “only one won't hurt” and in the grand scheme of things one little bad thought or idea never really hurts anyone. But by allowing yourself that one little thought you let yourself have another, and another, and another, slowly breeding this sin until the point in which you are doing and thinking things you never had imagined. In comparison, when we find ourselves in a situation with alcohol it is a slow compromise, an action, a splurge of actions, and then a series of very unfortunate events. Alcohol, like sin, in abundance can lead to death. Alcohol little by little can pollute the physical body and mind until it deteriorates from the inside out. Sin little by little pollutes the Soul of a man, till his vision won't allow him to walk down the straight and narrow. The large distinction between the two is that little alcohol in moderation can be acceptable, sin on the other hand is never acceptable. But the parallel image is an interesting one. If we sin we do slowly haze the difference between right and wrong, in affect, forgetting the law. Also by sinning we are perverting the justice of all the afflicted, taking what was meant for good and using it for evil.