Proverbs 23:32
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
BSB
ASV
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
KJV
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
To take off the force of the temptation that there is in the pleasure of the sin, foresee the punishment of it, and what it will at last end in if repentance prevent not. In its latter end it bites (so the word is); think therefore what will be in the end thereof. But the inspired writer chooses to specify those pernicious consequences of this sin which are present and sensible.
The walk8
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Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
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They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.
“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination,…
If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
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Jeremiah 8:17“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
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If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,