Proverbs 23:32
Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
In Context
33Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things:
Cross References
Exodus 7:12yea they cast down each man his staff, and they became sea-serpents,—but Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staves.
Proverbs 5:11So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition;
Isaiah 28:3With the feet shall be trodden down, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
Isaiah 59:5Viper’s eggs, do they hatch, Spider’s threads, do they weave,—He that eateth of their eggs, dieth, And, that which is crushed, bringeth forth an adder;
Jeremiah 8:17For behold me! sending among you serpents—vipers which there is no charming,—And they shall fatally bite you declareth Yahweh.
Amos 9:3And, though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, from thence, will I search for them and take them,—and, though they conceal themselves from before mine eyes at the bottom of the sea, from thence, 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 →