35 “They (A)struck me,” you will say,[a] “but I was not hurt;
    they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
    I (B)must have another drink.”

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:35 Hebrew lacks you will say

O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(A)You have struck them down,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to repent.

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12 (A)“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
    let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
(B)and tomorrow will be like this day,
    great beyond measure.”

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32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, (A)I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, (B)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 33 (C)Do not be deceived: (D)“Bad company ruins good morals.”[a] 34 (E)Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For (F)some have no knowledge of God. (G)I say this to your shame.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 15:33 Probably from Menander's comedy Thais

22 (A)Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
    along with crushed grain,
    yet his folly will not depart from him.

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11 Like (A)a dog that returns to his vomit
    is (B)a fool who repeats his folly.

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22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The (A)dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

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19 They (A)have become callous and (B)have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

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18 I have heard (A)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
    like an untrained calf;
(B)bring me back that I may be restored,
    for you are the Lord my God.

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13 and behold, joy and gladness,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating flesh and drinking wine.
(A)“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”

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19 one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

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