Proverbs 23:32

but at the last it shall bite as an adder, and as a cockatrice it shall shed abroad venoms. (but in the end, it shall bite like a serpent, and it shall sting, with its venom, like a cockatrice.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

In Context

31Behold thou not [the] wine (or Look thou not upon the wine), when it sparkleth, when the colour thereof shineth in a glass cup. It entereth sweetly,

33Thine eyes shall see strange, ( or unknown), women, and thy heart shall speak wayward things.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:12and all casted forth their rods, which were turned into dragons; but the rod of Aaron devoured their rods. (and they all threw down their staffs, and they turned into serpents; but Aaron’s staff devoured their staffs.)

Proverbs 5:11and thou bewail in the last days, when thou hast wasted thy flesh, and thy body;

Isaiah 28:3The crown of pride of the drunken men of Ephraim shall be defouled with feet, (The crown of pride of the drunken men of Ephraim shall be defiled underfoot,)

Isaiah 59:5The have broken (the) eggs of snakes, and (have) made (the) webs of an araneid; he that eateth of the eggs of them, shall die, and that that is nursed, or hatched, shall break out into a cockatrice.

Jeremiah 8:17For lo! I shall send to you the worst serpents, to which is no charming (or which cannot be charmed); and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

Amos 9:3And if they shall be hid in the top of Carmel, from thence I seeking shall do them away, (or And if they shall be hidden on top of Mount Carmel, I shall seek them out there, and I shall do them away); and if they shall hide themselves from mine eyes in the deepness of the sea, there I shall command a serpent, and it shall bite them, (and devour 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 →

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