Proverbs 23:33

31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

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 are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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  • Proverbs 31:5

    Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

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  • Proverbs 2:12

    To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

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  • Hosea 7:5

    In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

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  • Genesis 19:32–38

    Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

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  • Daniel 5:4

    They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

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  • Psalms 69:12

    They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

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