Proverbs 23:29-35 ▼

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaint? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

30 Those lingering by the wine, || Those going in to search out mixed wine.

31 Do not see wine when it shows itself red, || When it gives its color in the cup, || It goes up and down through the upright.

32 Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, || And it stings as a viper.

33 Your eyes see strange women, || And your heart speaks perverse things.

34 And you have been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, || And as one lying down on the top of a mast.

35 “They struck me, I have not been sick, || They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”