Proverbs 23:34
And thou wilt be like one that lieth down in the heart of the sea, or as he that lieth on the top of a mast.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
33Thy eyes will see strange forms, and thy heart will speak perverse things.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:33And blessed be thy intelligence, and blessed be thou, who hast prevented me this day from coming unto blood-guiltiness, and from helping myself with my own hand.
1 Samuel 30:16And he brought him down; and behold, they were scattered over the face of all the country, eating and drinking, and dancing for joy, because of all the great spoil which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
1 Kings 16:9And there conspired against him his servant Zimri, captain of half the chariots, as he was in Thirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was set over the house in Thirzah.
Proverbs 31:4Not for kings, O Lemoel, not for kings [it is fitting] to drink wine, nor for princes, strong drink:
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 →