Proverbs 23:33 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 23:33

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

KJV

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ASV

Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

WEB

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

YLT

Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

DBT

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Proverbs 4:25
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Jude 1:12–13
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Acts 20:30
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Proverbs 31:5
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Hosea 7:5
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

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(1.) The eyes grow unruly and behold strange women to lust after them, and so let in adultery into the heart. Est Venus in vinis--Wine is oil to the fire of lust. Thy eyes shall behold strange things (so some read it); when men are drunk the house turns round with them, and every thing looks strange to them, so that them they cannot trust their own eyes.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

A solemn warning against whoredom and drunkenness (Ho 4:11). give me--This is the address of that divine wisdom so often presented (Pr 8:1; 9:3, &c.). heart--confidence. observe--keep. my ways--such as I teach you (Pr 3:17;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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