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Proverbs 23:35

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They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

They have stricken {H5221} me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick {H2470}; they have beaten {H1986} me, and I felt {H3045} it not: when shall I awake {H6974}? I will seek {H1245} it yet {H3254} again.

"They hit me, but I didn't feel it! They beat me up, and I didn't even know it! When will I wake up? . . . I'll go get another drink."

“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 5:3 (5 votes)

    O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

  • Isaiah 56:12 (5 votes)

    Come ye, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant.

  • Proverbs 27:22 (3 votes)

    ¶ Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.

  • Proverbs 26:11 (3 votes)

    ¶ As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:32 (3 votes)

    If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:34 (3 votes)

    Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak [this] to your shame.

  • Ephesians 4:19 (2 votes)

    Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.