Proverbs 23:32
because the next morning you will feel like you have been bitten by a poisonous snake [DOU].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 7:12They all threw down their sticks, and they became snakes. But Aaron’s stick, which had become a snake, swallowed up all their sticks!
Proverbs 5:11And when you are about to die, you will groan with severe pain because diseases that you have gotten from being immoral will be destroying your body.
Isaiah 28:3The people of Samaria are proud, but everything that the drunks who live there think is wonderful/glorious will be trampled on by their enemies.
Isaiah 59:5What you plan to do to harm people [MET] is as dangerous as the eggs of a ◄cobra/poisonous snake►, because cobras will hatch from those eggs. You trap people like [MET] spiders trap/catch insects in their webs.
Jeremiah 8:17Yahweh says, “I will send those enemy soldiers to Judah, and they will be like [MET] poisonous snakes among you. No one will be able to stop them from attacking you [MET]; they will attack you like snakes do, and kill you.”
Amos 9:3If they go to the top of Carmel Mountain to escape, I will search for them and seize them. If they try to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, I will command the huge sea monster to bite 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 →