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Proverbs 23:33
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31 Do not look on the wine when it1 is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it swirls around smoothly; 
32 At the last it bites like a serpent,
And stings like a viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange things,
And your heart will utter perverse things.
34 Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the1 midst of the sea,
Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying: 
35 “Theya have struck me, but I was not hurt;
They have beaten me, but I did not feel it.
When shall bI awake, that I may seek another drink?” 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Proverbs 23:33

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.


 
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