Proverbs 23:29-35

Words of the Wise

²⁹ _l Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has _m wounds without cause?
Who has _n redness of eyes?
³⁰ Those who _o tarry long over wine;
those who go to try _p mixed wine.
³¹ Do not look at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup
and goes down smoothly.
³² In the end it _q bites like a serpent
and stings like an adder.
³³ Your eyes will see strange things,
and your heart utter _r perverse things.
³⁴ You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
like one who lies on the top of a mast. ₁
³⁵ "They _s struck me," you will say, ₂ "but I was not hurt;
they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
I _t must have another drink."

1. Cross References
   Proverbs 23:20 - 21
   Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat.
   
2. Cross References
   Proverbs 23:35
   "They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink."
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 49:12
   His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
   
4. Cross References
   Isaiah 5:11
   Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!
   
5. Cross References
   Proverbs 9:2
   She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
   Proverbs 9:5
   Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
   Psalms 75:8
   For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.
   Isaiah 5:22
   Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink.
   Isaiah 65:11
   But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny.
   
6. Cross References
   Job 20:16
   He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
   
7. Cross References
   Proverbs 2:12
   Delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech.
   
8. Cross References
   Jeremiah 5:3
   O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
   Proverbs 23:29
   Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
   
9. Cross References
   Isaiah 56:12
   "Come," they say, "let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."