Proverbs 23:35 ““They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know…”

Proverbs 23:35

“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”

American Standard Version

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Geneva Bible 1599

They haue stricken mee, shalt thou say, but I was not sicke: they haue beaten mee, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seeke it yet still.

Darby Translation

— “They have smitten me, [and] I am not sore; they have beaten me, [and] I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”

Young's Literal Translation

'They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake — I seek it yet again!'

Bible in Basic English

They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

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Cross references

“stricken”

Jeremiah 5:3 Proverbs 27:22 Jeremiah 31:18

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Proverbs 27:22 · BSB

Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.

Jeremiah 31:18 · BSB

I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

“I felt it not”

Ephesians 4:19

Ephesians 4:19 · BSB

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

“I will”

Isaiah 56:12 1 Corinthians 15:32–34 Proverbs 26:11 Isaiah 22:13 2 Peter 2:22 Deuteronomy 29:19

Isaiah 56:12 · BSB

“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

1 Corinthians 15:32–34 · BSB

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Proverbs 26:11 · BSB

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Isaiah 22:13 · BSB

But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

2 Peter 2:22 · BSB

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

Deuteronomy 29:19 · BSB

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land…

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

In context

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

Read Proverbs 23