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Saying 19

Proverbs 23:33

In 11 translations

BSB
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
KJV
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
WEB
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
ASV
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
LSV
Your eyes see strange women, || And your heart speaks perverse things.
YLT
Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.
DBY
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
DRC
Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
GNV
Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.
JPS
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter confused things.
LXXE
Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
עֵ֭ינֶיךָ יִרְא֣וּ זָר֑וֹת וְ֝לִבְּךָ֗ יְדַבֵּ֥ר תַּהְפֻּכֽוֹת׃
LXX-Br
Οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου ὅταν ἴδωσιν ἀλλοτρίαν, τὸ στόμα σου τότε λαλήσει σκολιά.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Jude 1:12–13These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being…
  • Hosea 7:5The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
  • Proverbs 2:12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
  • Proverbs 31:5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.
  • Psalms 69:12Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
  • Genesis 19:32–38Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.” So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware…
  • Daniel 5:4As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

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