Proverbs 23:33-35

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 23:33

Thine eyes shall behold strange women ,.... Being inflamed with wine, shall look upon women, other men's wives, and lust after them; or harlots, whom seeking after or meeting with, when in their cups, are drawn into their embraces; excess of wine leads to whoredom F23 "Vina parant animos Veneri", Ovid. de Arte Amandi, l. 1. . So Aben Ezra supplies the word "women", and Jarchi interprets it to this sense; but the Targum renders it, "strange things"; and so many others: a drunken man,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:34

Yea, thou shall be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea ,.... Not in the open sea, and the waves of it, there fluctuating and tossed about; nor in an island encompassed by sea; but in a ship at sea, a drunken man reels and tumbles about, just as a ship does at sea; hence the motions and agitations of it, and of the men in it, are compared to the reeling and staggering of a drunken man, Psalm 107:26 ; or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast : where the motion is the... 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 23:33

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. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 23:34

Lieth down in the midst of the sea - He is utterly regardless of life; which is expressed very forcibly by one in a state of intoxication ascending the shrouds, clasping the mast-head, and there falling asleep; whence, in a few moments, he must either fall down upon the deck and be dashed to pieces, or fall into the sea and be drowned. Reader, if thou be a man given to this appetite, put a knife to thy throat. 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

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