Proverbs 23:31
Do not see wine when it shows itself red, || When it gives its color in the cup, || It goes up and down through the upright.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
30Those lingering by the wine, || Those going in to search out mixed wine.
32Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, || And it stings as a viper.
Cross References
2 Samuel 11:2And it comes to pass, at evening-time, that David rises from off his bed, and walks up and down on the roof of the king’s house, and sees a woman bathing from the roof, and the woman [is] of very good appearance,
Psalms 119:37Remove my eyes from seeing vanity, || Quicken me in Your way.
Matthew 5:28but I say to you that everyone who is looking on a woman to desire her, already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 John 2:16because all that [is] in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of [one’s] life—is not of the Father, but of the world,
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 →