Proverbs 23:33
“Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.”
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
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.
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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Cross-References
“Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.”
“But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;”
“And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?”
“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:”
“They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.”