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Proverbs 23:31
Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
Proverbs 23:31 · Bible in Basic English
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Proverbs 23:31 in other translations
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
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In context
28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
29 Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
34 Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.
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