Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Your eyes will see strange sights, and your mind will imagine confusing things. New Living Translation You will see hallucinations, and you will say crazy things. English Standard Version Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. Berean Standard Bible Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities. King James Bible Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. New King James Version Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things. New American Standard Bible Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will say perverse things. NASB 1995 Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things. NASB 1977 Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will utter perverse things. Legacy Standard Bible Your eyes will see strange things And your heart will speak perverse things. Amplified Bible Your [drunken] eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things [untrue things, twisted things]. Christian Standard Bible Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say absurd things. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say absurd things. American Standard Version Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things. Aramaic Bible in Plain English When your eyes gaze at an estranged woman, then your heart speaks perverse things. Brenton Septuagint Translation Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things. Contemporary English Version You will see weird things, and your mind will play tricks on you. Douay-Rheims Bible Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. English Revised Version Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thine heart shall utter froward things. GOD'S WORD® Translation Your eyes will see strange sights, and your mouth will say embarrassing things. Good News Translation Weird sights will appear before your eyes, and you will not be able to think or speak clearly. International Standard Version Your eyes will see strange things, and with slurred words you'll speak what you really believe. JPS Tanakh 1917 Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter confused things. Literal Standard Version Your eyes see strange women, | And your heart speaks perverse things. Majority Standard Bible Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities. New American Bible Your eyes behold strange sights, and your heart utters incoherent things; NET Bible Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things. New Revised Standard Version Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things. New Heart English Bible Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things. Webster's Bible Translation Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. World English Bible Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things. Young's Literal Translation Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context True Riches…32In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper. 33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities. 34You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:… Cross References Proverbs 2:12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity, Proverbs 23:34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast: Treasury of Scripture Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things. eyes Genesis 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. and Proverbs 31:5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. Psalm 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. Daniel 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. Jump to Previous Confused Eyes Froward Heart Imagine Mind Perverse Sights Speak Speaketh Strange Twisted Utter WomenJump to Next Confused Eyes Froward Heart Imagine Mind Perverse Sights Speak Speaketh Strange Twisted Utter WomenProverbs 23 1. Consider carefully what is before you(33) Thine eyes shall behold strange women.--i.e., look out for them, impurity being the constant attendant of drunkenness. Or, the word may be translated "strange things," referring to the strange fancies of a drunkard, the horrible and fantastic visions present to his disordered brain. Perverse things.--His notions of right and wrong being completely distorted. Verse 33. - The excitement occasioned by wine is now described. Thine eyes shall behold strange women. Ewald, Delitzsch, and others take זָדות to mean "strange things," as affording a better parallel to the "perverse things" of the next clause. In this case the writer intends to denote the fantastic, often dreadful, images produced on the brain by the feverish condition of the inebriated. But the often denounced connection between drunkenness and incontinence, the constant reference to "strange women" in this book, and the general consensus of the versions, lead one to uphold the rendering of the Authorized Version. It seems, too, somewhat meagre to note these illusions as one of the terrible effects of intemperance, omitting all mention of the unbridling of lust, when the eyes look out for and rove after unchaste women. Thine heart shall utter perverse things (comp Proverbs 15:28; Matthew 15:19). The drunkard's notions are distorted, and his words partake of the same character; he confuses right and wrong; he says things which he would never speak if he were in full possession of his senses. Septuagint, "When thine eyes shall see a strange woman, then thy mouth shall speak perverse things."Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Your eyesעֵ֭ינֶיךָ (‘ê·ne·ḵā) Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain will see יִרְא֣וּ (yir·’ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 7200: To see strange things, זָר֑וֹת (zā·rō·wṯ) Adjective - feminine plural Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery and your mind וְ֝לִבְּךָ֗ (wə·lib·bə·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre will utter יְדַבֵּ֥ר (yə·ḏab·bêr) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue perversities. תַּהְפֻּכֽוֹת׃ (tah·pu·ḵō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 8419: Perversity, perverse thing Links Proverbs 23:33 NIVProverbs 23:33 NLT Proverbs 23:33 ESV Proverbs 23:33 NASB Proverbs 23:33 KJV Proverbs 23:33 BibleApps.com Proverbs 23:33 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 23:33 Chinese Bible Proverbs 23:33 French Bible Proverbs 23:33 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 23:33 Your eyes will see strange things (Prov. 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