Proverbs 23:32
But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
In Context
33Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Cross References
Exodus 7:12And they every one cast down their rods, and they were turned into serpents: but Aaron's rod devoured their rods.
Proverbs 5:11And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:
Isaiah 28:3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet.
Isaiah 59:5They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.
Jeremiah 8:17For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
Amos 9:3And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them away from thence : and though they hide themselves from my eyes in the depth of the sea, there will I command the serpent and he shall 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 →