You’ll be like someone sleeping out at sea or lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.
Proverbs 23:35 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I didn’t know it! When will I wake up? I’ll look for another drink.’ Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You will say, They struck me, but I was not hurt! They beat me [as with a hammer], but I did not feel it! When shall I awake? I will crave and seek more wine again [and escape reality]. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible “Though hit, I feel no pain; though beaten up, I don’t know anything about it. When I wake up, I’ll look for wine again!” Catholic Public Domain Version And you will say: "They have beaten me, but I did not feel pain. They have dragged me, and I did not realize it. When will I awaken and find more wine?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake, and find wine again? |
You’ll be like someone sleeping out at sea or lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.
As a dog returns to its vomit, so also a fool repeats his foolishness.
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, you will not separate his foolishness from him.
But look: joy and gladness, butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep and goats, eating of meat, and drinking of wine – ‘Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! ’
‘Come, let me get some wine, let’s guzzle some beer; and tomorrow will be like today, only far better! ’
I have surely heard Ephraim moaning, ‘You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined like an untrained calf. Take me back, so that I can return, for you, Lord, are my God.
Lord, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.
They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.
When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, “I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.” This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.
It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, , and, ‘A washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.’