Proverbs 23:33

You [SYN] will think that you are seeing strange/weird things, and you [SYN] will not be able to think clearly or speak clearly.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

In Context

32because the next morning you will feel like you have been bitten by a poisonous snake [DOU].

34You will think you are in a ship that is tossing on the sea; you be like [SIM] someone who is trying to sleep when the ship is rolling from one side to the other.

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Cross References

Psalms 69:12Even the elders of the city say bad things about me. The drunkards of the city sing disgusting songs about me.

Proverbs 20:1Drinking a lot of wine or other strong drinks causes people to start fighting; it is foolish to become drunk/intoxicated.

Daniel 5:4They drank to praise/honor their idols that were made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, and even wood and stone.

Jude 1:12Those teachers of false doctrine are as dangerous to you as [MET] ◄hidden rocks on a reef/rocks underneath the surface of the ocean► are to a boat. When you gather together to eat the meals that help you believers to love each other more and have a closer relationship with each other, they join you and carouse shamelessly, caring only for themselves and not for others. Because they do not do anything to help others [MET], they are as useless as clouds that are blown along by the wind {that the wind blows along} but that do not produce/give any rain. They are as disappointing as [MET] trees that do not produce fruit in the autumn as we expect them to. They are not only spiritually [MET] dead themselves, but they are not able to cause others to be alive spiritually, just like [MET] trees that have been {that someone has} uprooted and as a result are unable to produce any fruit.

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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