Proverbs 23:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Who hath sorrow? - Hebrew, aboi; an interjection of sorrow arising through want; from abah, to desire.

Babbling - Hebrew, siyach (H7879); the babbling mutter of drunkards.

Who hath wounds without cause? - needlessly incurred in drunken quarrels; not wounds honourably received in defending all that is sacred to man (1 Kings 16:9-10).

Who hath redness of eyes? - suffusion of the eyes with blood. Maurer, and Gesenius makes it 'darkening of the eyes.'

Proverbs 23:29

29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?