Proverbs 23:32
but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and it will spread poison like a king of snakes.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
In Context
33Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities.
Cross References
Exodus 7:12And each one cast down their staffs, and they were turned into serpents. But the staff of Aaron devoured their staffs.
Proverbs 5:11and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:
Isaiah 28:3The arrogant crown of the inebriated of Ephraim will be trampled underfoot.
Isaiah 59:5They have ruptured the eggs of asps, and they have woven the webs of spiders. Whoever will eat of their eggs will die. For what has been incubated will hatch into a king snake.
Jeremiah 8:17For behold, I will send among you serpents, king snakes, against which there is no charm, and they will bite you, says the Lord.
Amos 9:3And if they were hiding at the top of Carmel, when searching there, I would steal them away, and if they conceal themselves from my eyes in the depths of the sea, I will command the serpent there and he will bite them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:30-35
Cautions against Intemperance. 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 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. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, thou… Read the whole commentary →