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Matthew Henry

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

John Gill

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 23:35

They have stricken me - Though beat and abused, full of pain, and exhibiting a frightful figure; yet so drunk was he, as to be insensible who had struck him: still, after all this abuse and disgrace, he purposes to embrace the next opportunity of repeating his excesses! Sin makes a man contemptible in life, miserable in death, and wretched to all eternity. Is it not strange, then, that men should Love it? read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:29-35

Here follows a mashal ode or song on the subject of drunkenness, which is closely connected with the sin mentioned in the previous lines. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:29-35

The perils of drunkenness I. THE IMMEDIATE EXTERNAL EFFECTS . (Verses29, 30.) Trouble, quarrels, violence, deformity. "No translation or paraphrase can do justice to the concise, abrupt, and energetic manner of the original." "Oh that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!" II. THE ULTIMATE CONSEQUENCES . ( Proverbs 23:32 .) It "bites like a serpent, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:29-35

(with Proverbs 23:20 , Proverbs 23:21 ) Drunkenness A most striking picture is given as here of the manifold evils of this great curse. In a few strokes Solomon brings before us most, if not all, of its painful and pitiable consequences. Their name is legion, for they are indeed many. I. THE CONTEMPT OF THE SOBER . ( Proverbs 23:20 .) The very word "drunkard," or "wine bibber," is indicative of the deep disregard in which the victim of this vice is held by sober... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:35

The drunkard is represented as speaking to himself. The LXX . inserts, "and thou shelf say" as the Authorized Version does: They have stricken me, shall thou say, and I was not sick; or, I was not hurt. The drunken man has been beaten (perhaps there is a reference to the "contentions," Proverbs 23:29 ), but the blows did not pain him; his condition has rendered him insensible to pain. He has some vague idea the he has suffered certain rough treatment at the hands of his companions,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 23:35

Proverbs 23:35. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, &c. “And to complete thy misery, shouldst thou be not only mocked and abused, but beaten also, thou thyself wilt confess afterward, that it made no impression on thee: nay, shouldst thou be most lamentably bruised, thou wilt neither know who did it, nor at all regard it; but, as if no harm had befallen thee, no sooner wilt thou open thine eyes, but thou wilt stupidly seek an occasion to be drunk and beaten again.” Bishop Patrick. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:1-35

Social-climbers and others (23:1-35)Those who seek status like to mix with the upper classes and try to copy their habits. But because of their ignorance of how to eat fine foods, they make fools of themselves and so spoil their chances of progressing up the social ladder. The food they desire becomes the means of their downfall (23:1-3). The desire for wealth can lead to disappointment (4-5), and the efforts to win the favour of others may win only their disfavour. This may particularly be the... read more

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