Proverbs 23:26-35
English Standard Version
26 My son, give me your heart,
and let your eyes observe[a] my ways.
27 For a prostitute is (A)a deep pit;
(B)an adulteress[b] is a narrow (C)well.
28 (D)She lies in wait like a robber
and increases the traitors among mankind.
29 (E)Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has (F)wounds without cause?
Who has (G)redness of eyes?
30 Those who (H)tarry long over wine;
those who go to try (I)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 (J)bites like a serpent
and stings like an adder.
33 Your eyes will see strange things,
and your heart utter (K)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.[c]
35 “They (L)struck me,” you will say,[d] “but I was not hurt;
they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
I (M)must have another drink.”
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:26 Or delight in
- Proverbs 23:27 Hebrew a foreign woman
- Proverbs 23:34 Or of the rigging
- Proverbs 23:35 Hebrew lacks you will say
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