Proverbs 23:32

KJV1611 – Modern English

At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.

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  • Exod 7:5-6 : 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth my 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 they did.
  • 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 you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
  • Eccl 10:8 : 8 He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaks an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
  • Isa 28:3 : 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trampled underfoot:
  • 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 by 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 viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks 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 you do in the end thereof?
  • Jer 8:17 : 17 For behold, I will send serpents, vipers, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
  • Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man fled 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 on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
  • Luke 16:25-26 : 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us who would come from there.
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you 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.

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

  • Prov 23:28-31
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    28She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.

    29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

    30Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

    31Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls smoothly.

  • Prov 23:33-34
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    33Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

    34Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast.

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    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

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    4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops 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, vipers, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.

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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 prevailed over him.

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

    23Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.

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    8He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaks an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

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    1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

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    9Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

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    15Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who puts the bottle to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on their nakedness!

  • Amos 5:19
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    19As if a man fled 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 is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

    13Though he spares it and does not forsake it, but keeps it still within his mouth,

    14Yet his food in his stomach is turned, it is the venom of asps within him.

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    26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.

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    11And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

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

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    20Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wrong.

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    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

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    7Shall they not rise up suddenly that will bite you, and awake that will vex you, and you shall be for plunder to them?

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    25Lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

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    4And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die:

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

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    17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, a viper in the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

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    24They shall be wasted 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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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

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    18Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

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    8The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

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    14And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life:

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    1He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.