Proverbs 23:33
31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
32 In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
35 “They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
- KJV
- Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
- WEB
- Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
- ASV
- Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
- DARBY
- Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
- BLB
- Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things.
- ÅB
- dine øyne vil se etter fremmede kvinner, og ditt hjerte tale forvendte ting,
- OTB
- Dine øyne vil se merkelige ting, og ditt sinn vil tale forvrengte ting.
- B1930
- dine øine vil se efter fremmede kvinner, og ditt hjerte tale forvendte ting,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jude 1:12–13
These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
Read in contextProverbs 31:5
lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.
Read in contextProverbs 2:12
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
Read in contextHosea 7:5
The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
Read in contextGenesis 19:32–38
Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
Read in contextDaniel 5:4
As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
Read in contextPsalms 69:12
Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
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