Proverbs 23:32

In 11 translations

BSB

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

KJV

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.an…: or, a cockatrice

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, || And it stings as a viper.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

JPS

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

LXXE

But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אַ֭חֲרִיתוֹ כְּנָחָ֣שׁ יִשָּׁ֑ךְ וּֽכְצִפְעֹנִ֥י יַפְרִֽשׁ׃

LXX-Br

Τὸ δὲ ἔσχατον ὥσπερ ὑπὸ ὄφεως πεπληγὼς ἐκτείνεται, καὶ ὥσπερ ὑπὸ κεράστου διαχεῖται αὐτῷ ὁ ἰός.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Luke 16:25–26But 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. And besides all this, a great…
• Isaiah 28:7–8These 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…
• Isaiah 28:3The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.
• Exodus 7:12Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.
• 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.
• Proverbs 5:11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
• 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.
• 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.
• Jeremiah 8:17“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
• Ecclesiastes 10:8He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.
• 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.
• Job 20:16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
• 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?
• Exodus 7:5–6And 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.” So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).