Proverbs 23:25-35

25 Let your ¹father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

26 ²Give me your heart, my son, And let your eyes ³delight in my ways.

27 For a harlot is a ⁴deep pit And an ⁵adulterous woman is a narrow well.

28 Surely she ⁶lurks as a robber, And increases the faithless among men.

29 Who has ⁷woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

30 Those who ⁸linger long over wine, Those who go to taste ⁹mixed wine.

31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles * in the cup, When it ¹⁰goes down smoothly;

32 At the last it ¹¹bites like a serpent And stings like a ¹²viper.

33 Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will ¹³utter perverse things.

34 And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.

35 "They ¹⁴struck me, but I did not become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When shall I awake? I will ¹⁵seek another * drink."

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Proverbs 23:25-35 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 11

This chapter relates the false steps Solomon took, notwithstanding all his wisdom, in marrying strange wives, and worshipping other gods, 1Ki 11:1-8 upon which the Lord threatens him to rend the kingdom in his son's time, 1Ki 11:9-13 and he raised up adversaries against him, Hadad, Rezon, and Jeroboam, 1Ki 11:14-26 of which last an account is given, and of his being assured by Ahijah the prophet of his having ten of the tribes of Israel given to him; which Solomon having notice of sought to slay him, 1Ki 11:27-40 and the chapter is concluded with an account of Solomon's death and burial, 1Ki 11:41-43.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

1. Proverbs 27:11
2. Proverbs 3:1; Proverbs 4:4
3. Psalms 1:2; Psalms 119:24
4. Proverbs 22:14
5. Proverbs 5:20
6. Proverbs 6:26; Proverbs 7:12; Ecclesiastes 7:26
7. Isaiah 5:11, 22
8. 1 Samuel 25:36; Proverbs 20:1; Isaiah 5:11; Isaiah 28:7; Ephesians 5:18
9. Psalms 75:8
10. Song of Songs 7:9
11. Job 20:16; Proverbs 20:1; Ephesians 5:18
12. Psalms 91:13; Isaiah 11:8
13. Proverbs 2:12
14. Proverbs 27:22; Jeremiah 5:3
15. Proverbs 26:11; Isaiah 56:12

Footnotes 10

[a]. Another reading is "observe"
[b]. Lit "strange"
[c]. Lit "treacherous"
[d]. Or "search out"
[e]. Lit "gives its eye"
[f]. Lit "heart"
[g]. Lit "heart"
[h]. Or "lookout"
[i]. I.e. from the effect of wounds
[j]. Lit "it yet again"