Proverbs Chapter 23 verse 33 Holy Bible
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
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Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
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Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
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Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
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Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things.
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Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 33. - The excitement occasioned by wine is now described. Thine eyes shall behold strange women. Ewald, Delitzsch, and others take זָדות to mean "strange things," as affording a better parallel to the "perverse things" of the next clause. In this case the writer intends to denote the fantastic, often dreadful, images produced on the brain by the feverish condition of the inebriated. But the often denounced connection between drunkenness and incontinence, the constant reference to "strange women" in this book, and the general consensus of the versions, lead one to uphold the rendering of the Authorized Version. It seems, too, somewhat meagre to note these illusions as one of the terrible effects of intemperance, omitting all mention of the unbridling of lust, when the eyes look out for and rove after unchaste women. Thine heart shall utter perverse things (comp Proverbs 15:28; Matthew 15:19). The drunkard's notions are distorted, and his words partake of the same character; he confuses right and wrong; he says things which he would never speak if he were in full possession of his senses. Septuagint, "When thine eyes shall see a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(33) Thine eyes shall behold strange women.--i.e., look out for them, impurity being the constant attendant of drunkenness. Or, the word may be translated "strange things," referring to the strange fancies of a drunkard, the horrible and fantastic visions present to his disordered brain.Perverse things.--His notions of right and wrong being completely distorted.
