Proverbs 23:29-33

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.

  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.
English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.