In Gbaya, the notion of staggering drunkenly is emphasized in Tobit 4:15 with kɔɗɔŋ-kɔɗɔŋ, an ideophone that refers to a staggering gait like that of a drunkard.

Note that the New Revised Standard Version, updated edition, used as the reference translation in TIPs, translates the second part of this verse following a different Greek manuscript (“May no evil go with you on any of your way”), most other English Bibles, such as the New Revised Standard Version, translate from the same source as the Gbaya translation (“Do not drink wine to excess or let drunkenness go with you on your way”).

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)