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Proverbs 23:35

“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

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ASV

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

KJV

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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Original language & word study

11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הִכּ֥וּנִיhi.Ku.nithey struck meH5221 →
בַל־val-notH1077 →
חָלִיתִי֮cha.li.TiI am sickH2470 →
הֲלָמ֗וּנִיha.la.Mu.nithey beat meH1986 →
בַּל־bal-notH1077 →
יָ֫דָ֥עְתִּיya.Da.'e.tiI knowH3045 →
מָתַ֥יma.Taiwhen?H4970 →
אָקִ֑יץ'a.Kitzwill I awakeH6974 →
א֝וֹסִ֗יף'o.SifI will repeatH3254 →
אֲבַקְשֶׁ֥נּוּ'a.vak.She.nuI will seek itH1245 →
עֽוֹד׃odagainH5750 →

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Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.Isaiah 56:12“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”1 Corinthians 15:32–34If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”Proverbs 27:22Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.Isaiah 22:13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”2 Peter 2:22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”Proverbs 26:11As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.Proverbs 26:9Like a thorn that falls into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.Ephesians 4:19Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.Deuteronomy 29:19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.Matthew 24:39And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.Hosea 7:9Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.Proverbs 15:10Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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