Proverbs 23:32
Good News Translation
The next morning you will feel as if you had been bitten by a poisonous snake.

New Revised Standard Version
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

Contemporary English Version
but later it bites like a poisonous snake.

New American Bible
but in the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

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Proverbs 5:11 Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,

Isaiah 28:3,7,8 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet. . . .

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?

Exodus 7:5,6,12 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, who have stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought forth the children of Israel out of the midst of them. . . .

Luke 16:25,26 And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented. . . .

Romans 6:21 What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

biteth

Ecclesiastes 10:8 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Jeremiah 8:17 For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

Amos 5:19 As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

Amos 9:3 Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

an adder

Isaiah 59:5 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.

Context
True Riches
31Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, 32But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.33Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.…
Cross References
Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

Job 20:16
He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.

Psalm 91:13
Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon.

Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

Isaiah 11:8
And the sucking child shall play on other hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.

Proverbs 23:31
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