Proverbs 23:35 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

They have stricken me, and I was not sick. — The drunken man feels no blows or ill usage.

When shall I awake? — He longs to rouse himself from his slumber that he may return to his debauch.

Proverbs 23:35

35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I feltg it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.