Proverbs 23:35

Modern English Version

“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”

Cross References

Proverbs 23:34

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.

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

Proverbs 27:22

Though you grind a fool in the mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

Isaiah 22:13

Behold, there is joy and gladness, slaying of oxen and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine, and let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as today, only more so.”

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim pleading: “You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf; turn me back and I will be turned, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 5:3

O  Lord, are not Your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Ephesians 4:19

Being calloused they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Deuteronomy 29:19

and it happens that, when he hears the words of this covenant, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” thus destroying the watered ground with the dry.

2 Peter 2:22

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog returns to his own vomit,” and “the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mud.”