Proverbs 23:32

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Summary

Proverbs 23:32

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

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Biteth

An adder

Isaiah 59:5

Bible References

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And you groan at your final end,
When your flesh and your body are consumed;

The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trodden under foot.

The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule on their own authority;
And My people love it so!
But what will you do at the end of it?

The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.

Therefore what

benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

Biteth

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.

“For behold, I am sending serpents against you,
Adders, for which there is no charm,
And they will bite you,” declares the Lord.

As when a man flees from a lion
And a bear meets him,

Or goes home, leans his hand against the wall

And a snake bites him.

“Though they hide on the summit of Carmel,
I will search them out and take them from there;
And though they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent and it will bite them.

An adder

They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.