Parallel Verses
Webster
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like 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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as 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.
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 when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33 Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Cross References
Exodus 7:5-6
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Exodus 7:12
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
Job 20:16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Proverbs 5:11
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Ecclesiastes 10:8
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Isaiah 28:3
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet.
Isaiah 28:7-8
But 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 overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Isaiah 59:5
They 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.
Jeremiah 5:31
The 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?
Jeremiah 8:17
For behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
Amos 5:19
As if a man fled 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.
Amos 9:3
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they are hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
Luke 16:25-26
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
Romans 6:21
What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.