In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
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In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like a basilisk.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 23:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 28:3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
- Isaiah 28:7-8 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment. For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.
- Luke 16:25-26 “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish. Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’
- Exodus 7:5-6 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.” Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
- Exodus 7:12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
- Job 20:16 He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
- Proverbs 5:11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
- Ecclesiastes 10:8 He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
- Isaiah 59:5 They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
- Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
- Jeremiah 8:17 “For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.
- Amos 5:19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
- Amos 9:3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
- Romans 6:21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 23:32 At the last it biteth like a…
Pro 23:32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Ver. 32. At the last it biteth like a serpent.] Lo, such is the guilt of sin, such the end and effect of drunkenness - torments here, and tortures in hell.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain It hurts the body in many respects, impairs the…
It hurts the body in many respects, impairs the rigour of the mind, wastes the estate and reputation, wounds the conscience, and, without repentance, will destroy the soul.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain At the last it biteth like a serpent,.... Though…
At the last it biteth like a serpent,.... Though it goes down sweetly, yet it leaves a sting behind it, intemperately drank; a nausea in the stomach, a stink in the breath, pains and giddiness in the head, weakness in the eyes, trembling in the members of the body, palsy, gout, and other distempers, very painful and grievous to be bore; and, what is worse, if the conscience is awakened, sharp and cutting reflections there; and, without true repentance, torments intolerable in the world to come;
and stingeth like an adder; or "spreads" (u), or separates and scatters; that is, its poison. So the Vulgate Latin version, "diffuseth poisons as a basilisk", or "cockatrice"; the Targum and Syriac version,
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"as a serpent which flies;''
it signifies the same as before.
(u) "jecur diffindet", Schultens.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Basilisk, (regulus). Hebrew Tsiphoni, (Haydock) as asp. (Cerastes, &c.)…
Basilisk, (regulus). Hebrew Tsiphoni, (Haydock) as asp. (Cerastes, &c.) (Psalm xc. 13.)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain The acute miseries resulting from drunkenness contrasted with the…
The acute miseries resulting from drunkenness contrasted with the temptations.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 32. At the last — Literally, at its end;…
32. At the last — Literally, at its end; its final ruinous influence.
Stingeth — Punctures, wounds.
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Like an adder — A basilisk, a very venomous serpent. Isa_11:8. “A cockatrice.” — Geneva Bible.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain At the last it biteth like a serpent. Wine…
At the last it biteth like a serpent. Wine is like the subtle poison of a serpent, which affects the whole body, and produces the most fatal consequences (comp. Ecc 21:2). Nachash is the generic name for any of the larger tribe of snakes; (Gen_3:1, etc.) the poisonous nature of its bite was, of course, well known. (Num_21:9) Stingeth like an adder. The Hebrew word is tsiphoni, which is usually rendered "cockatrice" in the Authorized Version, hut the particular species intended has not been accurately identified. There was some confusion in men"s minds as to the organ which inflicted the poisonous wound. Thus a psalmist says, "They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent". (Psa_140:3) But the verb "sting" is to be taken in the sense of puncturing, making a wound. Vulgate, Sicut regulus venena diffundet, "It will diffuse its poison like a basilisk:" Septuagint, "But at the last he stretches himself like one stricken by a serpent, and the venom is diffused through him as by a horned snake (kerastou )."
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain v. 32. At the last it biteth like a…
v. 32. At the last it biteth like a serpent, its ruinous and destructive influence becoming evident afterward, and stingeth like an adder, whose venom had a most deadly effect.
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