Proverbs 23:32
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
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- Exod 7:5-6 : 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them." 6 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
- Exod 7:12 : 12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
- Job 20:16 : 16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
- Prov 5:11 : 11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
- Eccl 10:8 : 8 He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
- Isa 28:3 : 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
- Isa 28:7-8 : 7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.
- Isa 59:5 : 5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
- Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
- Jer 8:17 : 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.
- Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
- Amos 9:3 : 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
- Luke 16:25-26 : 25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish. 26 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'
- Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
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32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.
33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.
34 "Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
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28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.
31 Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
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33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
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3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
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4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
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11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.
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16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
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17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.
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3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
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21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
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8 He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
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2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
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9 Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
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15 "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
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19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
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12 "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
13 though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
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26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
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11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
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32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
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13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
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8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
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10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
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20 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'
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25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
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7 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
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25 lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.
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9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
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4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
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11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
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17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.
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24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
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17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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18 Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
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8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
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14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
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1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.