Proverbs 23:32

Authorized King James Version (1611)

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

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  • Exod 7:5-6 : 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. 6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.
  • Exod 7:12 : 12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
  • Job 20:16 : 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
  • Prov 5:11 : 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
  • Eccl 10:8 : 8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
  • Isa 28:3 : 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
  • Isa 28:7-8 : 7 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. 8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
  • Isa 59:5 : 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.
  • Jer 5:31 : 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?
  • Jer 8:17 : 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
  • Amos 5:19 : 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.
  • Amos 9:3 : 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:
  • Luke 16:25-26 : 25 ‹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.› 26 ‹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.›
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.

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    32For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter:

    33Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

    34[Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?

  • Prov 23:28-31
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    78%

    28She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

    29¶ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

    30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

    31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.

  • Prov 23:33-34
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    33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

    34Yea, 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.

  • Prov 5:3-4
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    3For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

  • Ps 58:4
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    4Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;

  • Eccl 10:11
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    11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

  • Job 20:16
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    16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

  • Ps 140:3
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    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

    22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

    23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

  • Eccl 10:8
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    8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

  • Prov 20:1-2
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    1¶ Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

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  • Prov 26:9
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    9[As] a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15¶ Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

  • Amos 5:19
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    19As 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.

  • Job 20:12-14
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    12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

    13[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

    14[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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    11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32[But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!

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    13Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:

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    8But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

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  • Prov 30:20
    68%

    20Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

  • Prov 6:25-26
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    25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Hab 2:7
    68%

    7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

  • Prov 22:25
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    25Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

  • Gen 3:4
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    4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

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    11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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    17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

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    24[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

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  • Prov 26:18
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    8The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

  • Gen 3:14
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    14¶ And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

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    1¶ He, that being often reproved hardeneth [his] neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.