Proverbs 23:32
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.”
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BSBPD
“In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Its latter end--as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 23:32 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 7:5And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”
- Exodus 7:12Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.
- Job 20:16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
- Proverbs 5:11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
- Ecclesiastes 10:8He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.
- Isaiah 28:3The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.
- Isaiah 28:7These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
- Isaiah 59:5They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
- Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- Jeremiah 8:17“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
- Amos 5:19It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
- Amos 9:3Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
- Luke 16:25But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
- Romans 6:21What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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