Proverbs 23:33

Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

32Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting.

34So shalt thou become, as one lying down in the heart of the sea,—or as one lying down on the top of the mastgear:

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Cross References

Psalms 69:12They who sit in the gate talk against me,—And [against me are] the songs of them who imbibe strong drink.

Proverbs 20:1Wine is, a scoffer, and strong drink, a brawler, every one therefore who erreth therein, is unwise.

Daniel 5:4they drank wine,—and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.

Jude 1:12These are they—who, in your love-feasts, are hidden rocks, as they fare sumptuously together, fearlessly, themselves, shepherding,—clouds without water, by winds swept along, trees autumnal, fruitless, twice dead, uprooted,

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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