Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder.
New American Standard Bible
And stings like a
King James Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Holman Bible
and stings like a viper.
International Standard Version
Eventually it will bite like a snake and sting like a serpent.
American Standard Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
Amplified
At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.
Bible in Basic English
In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
Darby Translation
at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Julia Smith Translation
Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper.
King James 2000
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{In the end}, it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder.
Modern King James verseion
At the last it bites like an asp and stings like an adder.
NET Bible
Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.
New Heart English Bible
In the end, it bites like a serpent, and poisons like a viper.
The Emphasized Bible
Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting.
Webster
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
World English Bible
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
Youngs Literal Translation
Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
Themes
Total abstinence » From intoxicating beverages
Asp » Injurious effects of wine
or adder Asp » (venom of), of injurious effects of wine
Chastity » Drunkenness destructive to
Drunkenness » What alcohol does
Reptiles » Mentioned in scripture » Adder or asp
Serpents » Illustrative » (poisonous bite of,) of baneful effects of wine
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 19 Translations in Proverbs 23:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
31 Look not thou upon the wine, how red it is, and what a color it giveth in the glass. 32 It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder. 33 So shall thine eyes look unto strange women, and thine heart shall muse upon froward things.
Cross References
Exodus 7:5-6
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I have stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought out the children of Israel from among them."
Exodus 7:12
And they cast down every man his rod, and they turned to serpents; but Aaron's rod ate up their rods.
Job 20:16
He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him:
Proverbs 5:11
Yea, that thou mourn not at the last, when thou hast spent thy body and goods,
Ecclesiastes 10:8
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Isaiah 28:3
And the proud crown of the drunken Ephraimites shall be trodden under foot.
Isaiah 28:7-8
But they go wrong by the reason of wine, they fall and stagger because of strong drink. Yea even the priests and prophets themselves go amiss, they are drunken with wine, and weak brained through strong drink. They fail in prophesying, and stumble in judgment.
Isaiah 59:5
They breed cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider's web. Whoso eateth of their eggs dieth. But if one treadeth upon them, there cometh up a serpent.
Jeremiah 5:31
The Prophets teach falsely, and the priests follow them, and my people hath pleasure therein. What will come thereof at the last?
Jeremiah 8:17
Moreover, I will send Cockatrices and serpents among you which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you," sayeth the LORD.
Amos 5:19
Yea, like as when a man runneth from a lion, and a bear meeteth with him; or when he cometh into the house, and leaneth his hand upon the wall, a serpent biteth him.
Amos 9:3
Though they hide themselves upon the top of Carmel, yet shall I seek them out, and bring them from thence. Though they creep down from my sight into the deep of the sea, I shall command the serpent, even there to bite them.
Luke 16:25-26
But Abraham said unto him, 'Son remember, that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy pleasure, and contrariwise, Lazarus pain. Now therefore is he comforted, and thou art punished.
Romans 6:21
What fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed. For the end of those things is death.