33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
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These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; …
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-35)Solomon here gives fair warning against the sin of drunkenness, to confirm what he had said, Prov. 23:20. I. He cautions all people to keep out of the way of temptations to this sin (Prov. 23:31): Look not thou upon the wine when it is red . Red wine was in Canaan looked upon as the best wine, it is therefore called the blood of the grape . Critics judge of wine, among other indications, by the co…
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