Proverbs 23:32
Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.
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- Exod 7:5-6 : 5 Then the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them. 6 And Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the LORD commanded them.
- Exod 7:12 : 12 Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
- Job 20:16 : 16 He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
- Prov 5:11 : 11 And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
- Eccl 10:8 : 8 Wisdom is Needed to Avert Dangers in Everyday Life One who digs a pit may fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
- Isa 28:3 : 3 The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.
- Isa 28:7-8 : 7 Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer– priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions. 8 Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place.
- Isa 59:5 : 5 They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched.
- Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy lies. The priests exercise power by their own authority. And my people love to have it this way. But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes!
- Jer 8:17 : 17 The LORD says,“Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”
- Amos 5:19 : 19 Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
- Amos 9:3 : 3 Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.
- Luke 16:25-26 : 25 But Abraham said,‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish. 26 Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’
- Rom 6:21 : 21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
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- Deut 32:32-343 verses79%
32 For their vine is from the stock of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter.
33 Their wine is snakes’ poison, the deadly venom of cobras.
34 “Is this not stored up with me?” says the LORD,“Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?
- Prov 23:28-314 verses78%
28 Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes?
30 Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine.
31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
- Prov 23:33-342 verses78%
33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.
34 And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging.
- Prov 5:3-42 verses76%
3 For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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4 Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear,
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11 If the snake should bite before it is charmed, the snake charmer is in trouble.
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16 He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
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17 The LORD says,“Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”
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3 Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips.(Selah)
- Prov 7:21-233 verses71%
21 She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along.
22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare
23 till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
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8 Wisdom is Needed to Avert Dangers in Everyday Life One who digs a pit may fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
- Prov 20:1-22 verses70%
1 Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.
2 The king’s terrifying anger is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him sins against himself.
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9 Like a thorn has gone up into the hand of a drunkard, so a proverb has gone up into the mouth of a fool.
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15 “Woe to you who force your neighbor to drink wine– you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their naked bodies.
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19 Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
- Job 20:12-143 verses69%
12 “If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
13 if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,
14 his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.
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26 I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.
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11 And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
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32 “‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
- Rom 3:13-142 verses69%
13 “Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”
14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
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8 But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
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10 Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
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20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said,“I have not done wrong.”
- Prov 6:25-262 verses68%
25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
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7 Your creditors will suddenly attack; those who terrify you will spring into action, and they will rob you.
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25 lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
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9 And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.
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4 The serpent said to the woman,“Surely you will not die,
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11 Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.
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17 May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward.
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24 They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
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17 Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
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18 Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows,
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8 you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.
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14 The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
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1 The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.