Proverbs 23:33
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
BSB
ASV
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
KJV
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women - Evil concupiscence is inseparable from drunkenness. Mr. Herbert shows these effects well: - He that is drunken may his mother kill, Big with his sister: he hath lost the reins; Is outlawed by himself. All kinds of ill Did, with his liquor, slide into his veins. The drunkard forfeits man; and doth divest All worldly right, save what he hath by beast. Herbert’s Poems - The Church Porch.
(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.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 2:12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
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Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
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Proverbs 31:5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.
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and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and…
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Psalms 69:12Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
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The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’
But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
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Hosea 7:5The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
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For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.