Proverbs 23:33

Modern English Version

Your eyes will behold strange women, and your heart will utter perverse things.

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Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things,

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler; whoever is seduced by it is not wise.

You will be as he who lies down in the heart of the sea, or as he who lies on the top of a mast.

lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

On the day of our king the princes made him sick from the heat of wine. He stretched out his hand with scorners.