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Proverbs 23:33
Alcohol confuses a drinker. A drinker cannot think sensible thoughts. Often, he thinks that he needs to drink more alcohol. Really, he needs to stop.
Alcohol confuses a drinker. A drinker cannot think sensible thoughts. Often, he thinks that he needs to drink more alcohol. Really, he needs to stop.
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...
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...
CHAPTER 23 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The opening proverbs of this chapter treat of self-restraint in curbing the appetite and give manners to be observed in the presence of a superior. Warnings against r...
It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what (_m...
STRANGE. apostate. Hebrew. _zur._ See note on Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 5:3. Not the same word as in Proverbs 23:27....
_strange_women] This rendering, which is retained in R.V. marg. (comp. ἀλλοτρίαν, LXX.; _extraneas_, Vulg.), is in keeping with the usage of the word in this Book, and with the undoubted connection be...
TEXT Proverbs 23:24-35 24. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him. 25. Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that...
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. THINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD (i:e. look out for) STRANGE WOMEN. Lust is inflamed by wines. (; ). AND THINE HEART SHA...
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
THINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD STRANGE WOMEN. — _i.e._, look out for them, impurity being the constant attendant of drunkenness. Or, the word may be translated “strange things,” referring to the strange fanc...
עֵ֭ינֶיךָ יִרְא֣וּ זָרֹ֑ות וְ֝ לִבְּךָ֗ יְדַבֵּ֥ר...
CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6 "Withhold not correction from the...
At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
Thy (o) eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. (o) That is, drunkenness will bring you to whoredom....
_Women. Wine excites to lust. (Calmet) See chap. xx. 1. --- Shall. Septuagint, "shall these." (Haydock)_...
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
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,...
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Ver. 33. _Thine eyes shall behold strange women._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 23:29 _"_ _Venter aestuans mero, spumat in...
_Thine eyes shall behold strange women_ With evil intent: lustful, nay, adulterous desires will be excited in thee, which thou wilt neither have inclination nor power to restrain and govern; _and thy...
V. 33. THINE EYES, under the influence of the liquor, as it clouds the senses, SHALL BEHOLD STRANGE WOMEN, rather, strange things, all objects being doubled, or uncertain, or swaying, in the vision of...
BEHOLD, with evil intent, or lustfully, which is the effect of drinking much wine, as is noted in Scripture, GENESIS 19:31,35 HO 4:18, and other authors. THINE HEART SHALL UTTER PERVERSE THINGS; thine...
Proverbs 23:33 eyes H5869 see H7200 (H8799) things H2114 (H8801) heart H3820 utter H1696 (H8762) things...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The indulgence of the appetites is a sin that easily besets us. We should apprehend ourselves to be in danger when...
Proverbs 23:1. _When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,_ and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, _put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite._ How many have stained...
_They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine._ THE WOES OF THE DRUNKARD The ugly sketch given here should be enough to warn all young people against tampering with a vice which...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 23:33 YOUR EYES WILL SEE STRANGE THINGS. A drunken person cannot perceive the cause-and-effect connections of events. ON THE TOP OF A MAST is a picture of instability....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 23:30. MIXED WINE—_i.e._, wine mixed with strong spices. PROVERBS 23:31. WHEN IT GIVETH HIS COLOUR, etc., literally, “When it showeth its eye.” This may refer to its _bright...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 23:1 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his talents had made the guest of kings....
Now the next three verses are coupled together. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. Be not de...
Daniel 5:4; Genesis 19:32; Hosea 7:5; Jude 1:12; Jude 1:13;...