Proverbs 23:35

“They struck me, I have not been sick, || They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

In Context

34And you have been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, || And as one lying down on the top of a mast.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:19and it has been, in his hearing the words of this oath, that he has blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though I go on in the stubbornness of my heart—in order to sweep away the watered with the thirsty.

Proverbs 27:22If you beat the foolish in a mortar, || Among washed things—with a pestle, || His folly does not turn aside from off him.

Isaiah 56:12“Come, I take wine, || And we drink, gulp strong drink, || And tomorrow has been as this day, || Great—exceedingly abundant!”

Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, || You have disciplined me, || And I am disciplined, as a heifer [that is] not taught, || Turn me back, and I turn back, || For You [are] my God YHWH.

Ephesians 4:19who, having ceased to feel, gave themselves up to the licentiousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

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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