John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:35
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick ,.... Or "grieved not" F24 בל חליתי "non dolui", Tigurine version, Michaelis. ; or was not wounded or skin broken F25 Schultens Orig. Heb. l. 1. c. 9. s. 20. ; see Jeremiah 5:3 . The drunken man is here represented as saying, that though his companions, with whom he quarrelled and fought in his drunken frolics, beat him very much, yet he was not sensible of the pain and smart; and it had left no sickness nor... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:29-35
Solomon here gives fair warning against the sin of drunkenness, to confirm what he had said, Prov. 23:20. I. He cautions all people to keep out of the way of temptations to this sin (Prov. 23:31): Look not thou upon the wine when it is red. Red wine was in Canaan looked upon as the best wine, it is therefore called the blood of the grape. Critics judge of wine, among other indications, by the colour of it; some wine, they say, looks charmingly, looks so well that it even says, ?Come and drink... read more