Proverbs 23:33 “Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversiti…”

Proverbs 23:33

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

American Standard Version

Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.

Darby Translation

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;

Young's Literal Translation

Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

Bible in Basic English

Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

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Cross references

“eyes”

Genesis 19:32–38

Genesis 19:32–38 · BSB

Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”

“and”

Proverbs 31:5 Hosea 7:5 Psalm 69:12 Daniel 5:4 Jude 1:12 Jude 1:13

Proverbs 31:5 · BSB

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.

Hosea 7:5 · BSB

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

Psalm 69:12 · BSB

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

Daniel 5:4 · BSB

As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

Jude 1:12 · BSB

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being u…

Jude 1:13 · BSB

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

Also

Proverbs 2:12

Proverbs 2:12 · BSB

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

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

In context

32In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

34You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:

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