Proverbs 23:32
But 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.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
In Context
31For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle.
33Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things.
Cross References
Exodus 7:12And they cast down each + 7:12 Gr. their. his rod, and they became serpents, but the rod of Aaron swallowed up their rods.
Proverbs 5:11And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed,
Isaiah 28:3The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet.
Isaiah 59:5They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.
Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which can’t be charmed, and they shall bite you
Amos 9:3If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from my presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall 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 →