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Proverbs 23:33
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Your eyes shall see strange things, And your heart shall utter perverse things.
Your eyes will see strange sights, and your mind will be confused.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.
Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things.
Your [drunken] eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things [untrue things, twisted things].
Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.
Thin iyen schulen se straunge wymmen, and thi herte schal speke weiwerd thingis.
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thine heart shall utter froward things.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
You will see weird things, and your mind will play tricks on you.
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
Your eyes will see peculiar things, your mind will utter nonsense.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
Wine will cause you to see strange things and to say things that make no sense.
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter confused things.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall vtter peruerse things.
Your eyes will see strange things. Your mind will say the wrong things.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.
Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.
When your eyes behold a strange woman, then your heart shall utter perverse things.
Weird sights will appear before your eyes, and you will not be able to think or speak clearly.
Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things:
Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.
Thyne eyes shall beholde straunge women, and thyne heart shall vtter lewde thinges:
Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things.
Your eyes will see strange things,and you will say absurd things.
Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things.
Your eyes shall look on strange women, and your heart shall speak perverse things;
Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.
So shal thine eyes loke vnto straunge women, & thine herte shal muse vpon frowarde thinges.
Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will say perverse things.
Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things.
Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things.
Your eyes will see strange thingsAnd your heart will speak perverse things.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
eyes: Genesis 19:32-38
and: Proverbs 31:5, Psalms 69:12, Daniel 5:4, Hosea 7:5, Jude 1:12, Jude 1:13
Reciprocal: Judges 16:19 - she made 1 Kings 11:1 - loved Proverbs 4:25 - General Proverbs 5:20 - with Proverbs 6:10 - General Ezekiel 23:16 - as soon as she saw them with her eyes Acts 20:30 - speaking
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thine eyes shall behold strange women,.... Being inflamed with wine, shall look upon women, other men's wives, and lust after them; or harlots, whom seeking after or meeting with, when in their cups, are drawn into their embraces; excess of wine leads to whoredom w. So Aben Ezra supplies the word "women", and Jarchi interprets it to this sense; but the Targum renders it, "strange things"; and so many others: a drunken man, through the lunges and vapours that ascend into his brain, fancies he sees strange sights; he sees things double; imagines that he sees trees walk, and many such like absurd and monstrous things;
and thine heart shall utter perverse things; or the mouth, from the abundance of the heart, and imagination of it, shall utter things contrary to sense and reason, contrary to truth and righteousness, contrary to chastity and good manners, contrary to their own honour and credit, contrary to God and men; the mouth then utters all that is in the heart, which it at other times conceals. It may have a particular respect to the unchaste, filthy, and obscene words, uttered to strange women, into whose company men fall when in liquor.
w "Vina parant animos Veneri", Ovid. de Arte Amandi, l. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims.
Proverbs 23:16
The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter it.
Reins - See Job 19:27 note.
Proverbs 23:17
Envy sinners - Compare in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73:3; the feeling which looks half-longingly at the prosperity of evil doers. Some connect the verb “envy” with the second clause, “envy not sinners, but envy, emulate, the fear of the Lord.”
Proverbs 23:18
Or, For if there is an end (hereafter), thine expectations shall not be cut off. There is an implied confidence in immortality.
Proverbs 23:20
Riotous eaters of flesh - The word is the same as “glutton” in Proverbs 23:21 and Deuteronomy 21:20.
Proverbs 23:21
The three forms of evil that destroy reputation and tempt to waste are brought together.
Drowsiness - Specially the drunken sleep, heavy and confused.
Proverbs 23:26
Observe - Another reading gives, “let thine eyes delight in my ways.”
Proverbs 23:28
As for a prey - Better as in the margin.
The transgressors - Better, the treacherous,” those that attack men treacherously.
Proverbs 23:29
Woe ... sorrow - The words in the original are interjections, probably expressing distress. The sharp touch of the satirist reproduces the actual inarticulate utterances of drunkenness.
Proverbs 23:30
Mixed wine - Wine flavored with aromatic spices, that increase its stimulating properties Isaiah 5:22. There is a touch of sarcasm in “go to seek.” The word, elsewhere used of diligent search after knowledge Proverbs 25:2; Job 11:7; Psalms 139:1, is used here of the investigations of connoisseurs in wine meeting to test its qualities.
Proverbs 23:31
His color - literally, “its eye,” the clear brightness, or the beaded bubbles on which the wine drinker looks with complacency.
It moveth itself aright - The Hebrew word describes the pellucid stream flowing pleasantly from the wineskin or jug into the goblet or the throat (compare Song of Solomon 7:9), rather than a sparkling wine.
Proverbs 23:32
Adder - Said to be the Cerastes, or horned snake.
Proverbs 23:34
The passage is interesting, as showing the increased familiarity of Israelites with the experiences of sea life (compare Psalms 104:25-26; Psalms 107:23-30).
In the midst of the sea - i. e., When the ship is in the trough of the sea and the man is on the deck. The second clause varies the form of danger, the man is in the “cradle” at the top of the mast, and sleeps there, regardless of the danger.
Proverbs 23:35
The picture ends with the words of the drunkard on waking from his sleep. Unconscious of the excesses of the night, his first thought is to return to his old habit.
When shall I awake ... - Better, when I shall awake I will seek it yet again.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 23:33. Thine eyes shall behold strange women — Evil concupiscence is inseparable from drunkenness. Mr. Herbert shows these effects well: -
He that is drunken may his mother kill,
Big with his sister: he hath lost the reins;
Is outlawed by himself. All kinds of ill
Did, with his liquor, slide into his veins.
The drunkard forfeits man; and doth divest
All worldly right, save what he hath by beast.
HERBERT'S Poems. - The Church Porch.
