Proverbs 23:34
Good News Translation
You will feel as if you were out on the ocean, seasick, swinging high up in the rigging of a tossing ship.

New Revised Standard Version
You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.

Contemporary English Version
You will feel tossed about like someone trying to sleep on a ship in a storm.

New American Bible
You are like one sleeping on the high seas, sprawled at the top of the mast.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.

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1 Samuel 25:33-38 And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand. . . .

1 Samuel 30:16,17 And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread abroad upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda. . . .

2 Samuel 13:28 And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when Ammon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike him, and kill him, fear not: for it is I that command you: take courage, and be valiant men.

1 Kings 16:9 And his servant Zambri, who was captain of half the horsemen, rebelled against him: now Ela was drinking in Thersa, and drunk in the house of Arsa, the governor of Thersa.

1 Kings 20:16 And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to help him.

Joel 1:5 Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.

Matthew 24:38 For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark:

Luke 17:27-29 They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. . . .

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-7 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night. . . .

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Exodus 15:8 And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

Context
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33Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. 34And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.35And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine again?…
Cross References
Proverbs 23:33
Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

Proverbs 23:35
And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine again?

Proverbs 23:33
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