32But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.


In Context

29 Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

30 Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups.

31 Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,

32 But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

33 Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

34 And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost.

Proverbs 23:32 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:32In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:32at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:32In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:32Its latter end — as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:32At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.