Proverbs 23:32 “In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.”

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

World English Bible

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

American Standard Version

At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

Geneva Bible 1599

In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

Darby Translation

at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Young's Literal Translation

Its latter end — as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

Bible in Basic English

In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

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Cross references

“At”

Isaiah 28:3 Proverbs 5:11 Jeremiah 5:31 Exodus 7:12 Romans 6:21 Isaiah 28:7

Isaiah 28:3 · BSB

The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

Proverbs 5:11 · BSB

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Jeremiah 5:31 · BSB

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

Exodus 7:12 · BSB

Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.

Romans 6:21 · BSB

What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

Isaiah 28:7 · BSB

These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their jud…

“biteth”

Ecclesiastes 10:8 Jeremiah 8:17 Amos 5:19 Amos 9:3

Ecclesiastes 10:8 · BSB

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Jeremiah 8:17 · BSB

“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.

Amos 5:19 · BSB

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

Amos 9:3 · BSB

Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

“an adder”

Isaiah 59:5

Isaiah 59:5 · BSB

They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

Also

Job 20:16

Job 20:16 · BSB

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

31Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

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