Proverbs 23:33 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. ”

• Proverbs 23:33 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips c...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thy (o) eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. (o) That is, drunkenness will bring you to whoredom.

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  strange . apostate. Hebrew. zur. See note on Proverbs 2:16 ; Proverbs 5:3 . Not the same word as in Proverbs 23:27 .

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Thine eyes shall behold strange women - Evil concupiscence is inseparable from drunkenness. Mr. Herbert shows these...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Thine eyes shall behold (i:e. look out for) strange women. Lust is inflamed by wines. ( Genesis 19:31-35...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt.

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thine eyes shall behold strange women. — i.e. , look out for them, impurity being the constant attendant of drunkenness. Or, the word may be translated “strange things,” referring to the strange f...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6 "Withhold not correction fro...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thine eyes shall behold strange women ,.... Being inflamed with wine, shall look upon women, other men's wives, and lust after them; or harlots, whom seeking after or meeting with, when in their cup...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Ver. 33. Thine eyes shall behold strange women. ] See Trapp on " Pro 23:29 " Venter aestuans mero, spumat i...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thine eyes shall behold strange women With evil intent: lustful, nay, adulterous desires will be excited in thee, which thou wilt neither have inclination nor power to restrain and govern; and thy...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?   30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Behold, with evil intent, or lustfully, which is the effect of drinking much wine, as is noted in Scripture, Genesis 19:31,35 Ho 4:18 , and other authors. Thine heart shall utter perverse thing...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 23:30 . Mixed wine — i.e. , wine mixed with strong spices. Proverbs 23:31 . When it giveth his colour , etc., literally, “When it showeth its eye.” This may refer to...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 23:1 . When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. How many have stai...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - The Biblical Illustrator

  They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. The woes of the drunkard The ugly sketch given here should be enough to warn all young people against tampering with a vice wh...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 23:1-20 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his talents had made the gue...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 33. Thine eyes, under the influence of the liquor, as it clouds the senses, shall behold strange women, rather, strange things, all objects being doubled, or uncertain, or swaying, in the visi...

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• Proverbs 23:33 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 5:4 ; Genesis 19:32-38 ; Hosea 7:5 ; Jude 1:12 ; Jude 1:13 ; Proverbs 31:5 ; Psalms 69:12

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