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Selected Verse: Proverbs 23:29 - King James

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Pr 23:29 King James Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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mixed wine--(Compare Pro 9:2; Isa 5:11).
 
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11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.