Proverbs 23:35
33 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:
“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
- “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?”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- “They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”
- ASV
- They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
- DARBY
- ''They have smitten me, [and] I am not sore; they have beaten me, [and] I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''
- BLB
- “They struck me; I did not become weak. They beat me; I did not know [it]. When I awake, I will add to seek it again?”
- ÅB
- Du vil si: De banket meg, det gjorde ikke ondt; de støtte meg, jeg kjente det ikke. Når skal jeg våkne? Jeg vil se å få tak i enda mere.
- OTB
- "De slo meg," vil du si, "men jeg ble ikke skadet! De slo meg, men jeg følte det ikke! Når vil jeg våkne opp så jeg kan finne en ny drink?"
- B1930
- Du vil si: De banket mig, det gjorde ikke ondt; de støtte mig, jeg kjente det ikke. Når skal jeg våkne? Jeg vil se å få tak i enda mere.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Read in contextIsaiah 56:12
“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:32–34
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Read in context2 Peter 2:22
Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
Read in contextProverbs 26:11
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
Read in contextProverbs 27:22
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
Read in contextIsaiah 22:13
But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
Read in contextEphesians 4:19
Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
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