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.’

Cross References

Jeremiah 5:3

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.

Isaiah 56:12

‘Come, let me get some wine, let’s guzzle some beer; and tomorrow will be like today, only far better! ’

Proverbs 27:22

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, you will not separate his foolishness from him.

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog returns to its vomit, so also a fool repeats his foolishness.

2 Peter 2:22

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.’

Ephesians 4:19

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity  with a desire for more and more.

Jeremiah 31:18

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.

Isaiah 22:13

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! ’

Deuteronomy 29:19

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.

Proverbs 23:34

You’ll be like someone sleeping out at sea or lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.