Proverbs 23:29-35
1599 Geneva Bible
29 To whom is woe? to whom is sorrow? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are wounds without cause? and to whom is the redness of the eyes?
30 Even to them that tarry long at the wine, to them that go, [a]and seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine, when it is red, and when it showeth his color in the cup, or goeth down pleasantly.
32 In the end thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrice.
33 Thine [b]eyes shall look upon strange women, and thine heart shall speak lewd things.
34 And thou shalt be as one that sleepeth in the midst of the [c]sea, and as he that sleepeth in the top of the mast.
35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, but I was not sick: they have beaten me, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I [d]seek it yet still.
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- Proverbs 23:30 Which by art make wine stronger and more pleasant.
- Proverbs 23:33 That is, drunkenness shall bring thee to whoredom.
- Proverbs 23:34 In such great danger shalt thou be.
- Proverbs 23:35 Though drunkenness make them more insensible than beasts, yet can they not refrain.
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