Proverbs 23:29
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
28 Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
- KJV
- Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
- WEB
- Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
- ASV
- Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
- DARBY
- Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
- BLB
- To whom [is] woe? To whom [is] sorrow? To whom [are] quarrels? To whom [is] complaining? To whom [are] wounds without cause? To whom [is] dullness of eyes?
- ÅB
- Hvem roper: Akk? Hvem roper: Ve? Hvem har trette? Hvem har klage? Hvem har sår for ingen ting? Hvem har røde øyne?
- OTB
- Hvem har ve? Hvem har sorg? Hvem har strid? Hvem har klager? Hvem har unødvendige blåmerker? Hvem har blodskutte øyne?
- B1930
- Hvem roper: Akk? Hvem roper: Ve? Hvem har trette? Hvem har klage? Hvem har sår for ingen ting? Hvem har røde øine?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 5:18
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
Read in context1 Samuel 25:36–37
When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
Read in contextIsaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
Read in contextIsaiah 5:22
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing beer,
Read in context2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
Read in contextIsaiah 28:7–8
These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
Read in contextProverbs 23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Read in contextLuke 12:45–46
But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
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