Proverbs 23:32
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
In Context
33Yours eyes shall behold strange women, and yours heart shall utter perverse things.
Cross References
Exodus 7:12For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
Proverbs 5:11And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
Isaiah 28:3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Isaiah 59:5They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
Amos 9:3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, 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 →