Proverbs 23:35

“They hit me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt. 1 They beat me, but I did not feel it. 1 When will I wake up? I will seek another drink.”

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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

34You will be as one who sleeps on the high seas 1 or lies on the top of a mast. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:19When that person hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself in his heart and say, 'I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would destroy the wet together with the dry.

Proverbs 27:22Even if you crush a fool with the pestle—along with the grain— 1 yet his foolishness will not leave him. 1

Isaiah 56:12“Come,” they say, “let us drink wine and liquor. 1 Tomorrow will be like today, a day great beyond measure.”

Jeremiah 31:18“I have certainly heard Ephraim sorrowing, 'You punished me, and I have been punished like an untrained calf. 1 Bring me back and I will be brought back, for you are Yahweh my God. 1

Ephesians 4:19They have no shame and have handed themselves over to sensuality, and they are continually practicing every kind of impurity.

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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