Proverbs 23:35

'They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake — I seek it yet again!'

Young's Literal Translation

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

34And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:19'And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.

Proverbs 27:22If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things — with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

Isaiah 56:12'Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great — exceeding abundant!'

Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, 'Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou [art] Jehovah my God.

Ephesians 4:19who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

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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