KJV King James Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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Proverbs 23:32
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
WEB World English Bible
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
ASV American Standard Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Its latter end—as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 23
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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Isaiah 28:7-8But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.Luke 16:25-26But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.Isaiah 28:3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:Amos 9:3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:Romans 6:21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.Amos 5:19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.Exodus 7:12For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.Exodus 7:5-6And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.Ecclesiastes 10:8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.Proverbs 5:11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,Isaiah 59:5They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
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