Proverbs 23 · Verse 33

Proverbs 23:33

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Proverbs 23:33, King James Version

Proverbs 23:33 in other translations

BSBYour eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
WEBYour eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
ASVThine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
YLTThine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.
DARBYThine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
BBEYour eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
WebsterThy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

What does Proverbs 23:33 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).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women - Evil concupiscence is inseparable from drunkenness. Mr. Herbert shows these effects well: - He that is drunken may his mother kill,Big with his sister: he hath lost the reins; Is outlawed by himself. All kinds of illDid, with his liquor, slide into his veins. The drunkard forfeits man; and doth divestAll worldly right, save what he hath by beast. Herbert's Poems - The Church Porch.

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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…

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Proverbs 23:33 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עֵ֭ינֶיךָ'Ei.nei.khaeyes yourH5869
יִרְא֣וּyir.'Uthey will seeH7200
זָר֑וֹתza.Rotstrange [things]H2114
וְ֝לִבְּךָ֗ve.li.be.khaand heart yourH3820
יְדַבֵּ֥רye.da.Berit will speakH1696
תַּהְפֻּכֽוֹת\׃tah.pu.Khotperverse thingsH8419

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 23:33

  • Jude 1:12-13

    These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

  • Proverbs 31:5

    Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

  • Proverbs 2:12

    To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

  • Hosea 7:5

    In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

  • Genesis 19:32-38

    Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. …

  • Daniel 5:4

    They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

  • Psalms 69:12

    They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
eyes.
Ge 19:32-38
and.
31:5; Ps 69:12; Da 5:4; Ho 7:5; Jude 1:12,13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 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 23:34

    Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

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Proverbs 23:33 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Tus ojos mirarán las extrañas, y tu corazón hablará perversidades.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
tes yeux regarderont les étrangères, et ton cœur dira des choses perverses;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Deine Augen werden Seltsames sehen, und dein Herz wird verkehrte Dinge reden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Oculi tui videbunt extraneas, et cor tuum loquetur perversa.