Proverbs 23:33

Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

32But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

34And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.

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Cross References

Proverbs 20:1Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

Daniel 5:4They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

Jude 1:12These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

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 →

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