Proverbs 23:31

For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

In Context

30Are not those of them that stay long at wine? are not those of them that haunt the places where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse with them + 23:30 Gr. in public walks. openly.

32But at last such a one stretches himself out as one struck by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2And it came to pass toward evening, that David arose off his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

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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