Proverbs 23:32
In the end, it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
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Other Translations
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
KJV1611 – Modern English
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
At the last{H319} it biteth{H5391} like a serpent,{H5175} And stingeth{H6567} like an adder.{H6848}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
At the last{H319} it biteth{H5391}{(H8799)} like a serpent{H5175}, and stingeth{H6567}{(H8686)} like an adder{H6848}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
It goeth downe softly, but at the last it byteth like a serpet, and styngeth as an Adder.
Geneva Bible (1560)
In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
It goeth downe sweetely, but at the last it byteth like a serpent, and stingeth lyke an adder.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Webster's Bible (1833)
In the end, it bites like a snake, And poisons like a viper.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
American Standard Version (1901)
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
American Standard Version (1901)
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
World English Bible (2000)
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.
Referenced Verses
- Exod 7:5-6 : 5 The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them. 6 Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them.
- Exod 7:12 : 12 Each one threw down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
- Job 20:16 : 16 He will suck the venom of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
- Prov 5:11 : 11 At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.
- Eccl 10:8 : 8 Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
- Isa 28:3 : 3 The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled underfoot.
- Isa 28:7-8 : 7 But these also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused by wine, they stagger because of strong drink—they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 All the tables are full of vomit and filth; there is no clean place left.
- Isa 59:5 : 5 They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin spider webs. Whoever eats their eggs dies, and when one is crushed, a viper hatches.
- Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. And My people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
- Jer 8:17 : 17 See, I am sending venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you, declares the LORD.
- Amos 5:19 : 19 It will be as if a man flees from a lion, only to be met by a bear; or as if he enters his house, rests his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him.
- Amos 9:3 : 3 'If they hide themselves on the top of Mount Carmel, from there I will search them out and seize them. If they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.'
- Luke 16:25-26 : 25 But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.' 26 And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.
- Rom 6:21 : 21 But what fruit did you produce then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.
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16 He will suck the venom of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
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21 With her abundant persuasion, she entices him; with her smooth talk, she compels him.
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32 You adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
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18 Like a madman who shoots fiery arrows, arrows, and death,
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8 You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
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