Proverbs 23:32

Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, || And it stings as a viper.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

In Context

31Do not see wine when it shows itself red, || When it gives its color in the cup, || It goes up and down through the upright.

33Your eyes see strange women, || And your heart speaks perverse things.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:12and they each cast down his rod, and they become dragons, and the rod of Aaron swallows their rods;

Proverbs 5:11And you have howled in your latter end, || In the consumption of your flesh and your food,

Isaiah 28:3The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trodden down by feet,

Isaiah 59:5They have hatched eggs of a viper, || And weave webs of a spider, || Whoever is eating their eggs dies, and the crushed hatches a viper.

Jeremiah 8:17For behold, I am sending serpents among you, || Vipers that have no charmer, || And they have bitten you,” || A declaration of YHWH.

Amos 9:3And if they are hid in the top of Carmel, || From there I search out, and have taken them, || And if they are hid from My eyes in the bottom of the sea, || From there I command the serpent, || And it has bitten 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 →

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