Proverbs 23:32
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Proverbs 23:32 in other translations
| BSB | In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper. |
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| WEB | In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper. |
| ASV | At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder. |
| YLT | Its latter end--as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth. |
| DARBY | at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. |
| BBE | In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. |
| Webster | At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. |
What does Proverbs 23:32 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 23:26-35
26-35. A solemn warning against whoredom and drunkenness (Ho 4:11). give me--This is the address of that divine wisdom so often presented (Pr 8:1; 9:3, &c.). heart--confidence. observe--keep. my ways--such as I teach you (Pr 3:17; 9:6).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 23:29-35
Solomon warns against drunkenness. Those that would be kept from sin, must keep from all the beginnings of it, and fear coming within reach of its allurements. Foresee the punishment, what it will at last end in, if repentance prevent not. It makes men quarrel. Drunkards wilfully make woe and sorrow for themselves. It makes men impure and insolent. The tongue grows unruly; the heart utters things contrary to reason…
Proverbs 23:32 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 23:32
- Isaiah 28:7-8
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
- Isaiah 28:3
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
- Luke 16:25-26
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
- Exodus 7:12
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
- Amos 5:19
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
- Isaiah 59:5
They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
- Job 20:16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Jeremiah 8:17
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
- Ecclesiastes 10:8
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
- Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
- Proverbs 5:11
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
- Amos 9:3
And 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:
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Context
- Proverbs 23:31
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
- Proverbs 23:32
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- Proverbs 23:33
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Proverbs 23:32 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas al fin como serpiente morderá, y como basilisco dará dolor: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | à la fin, il mord comme un serpent et il pique comme une vipère: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sein Ende ist, daß er beißt wie eine Schlange und sticht wie ein Basilisk. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | sed in novissimo mordebit ut coluber, et sicut regulus venena diffundet. |