Proverbs 23:32
Modern Translations
New International Version
In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.

New Living Translation
For in the end it bites like a poisonous snake; it stings like a viper.

English Standard Version
In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

Berean Study Bible
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

New American Standard Bible
In the end it bites like a snake And stings like a viper.

NASB 1995
At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper.

NASB 1977
At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper.

Amplified Bible
At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper.

Christian Standard Bible
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

Contemporary English Version
but later it bites like a poisonous snake.

Good News Translation
The next morning you will feel as if you had been bitten by a poisonous snake.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Later it bites like a snake and strikes like a poisonous snake.

International Standard Version
Eventually it will bite like a snake and sting like a serpent.

NET Bible
Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

New King James Version
At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper.

King James 2000 Bible
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

New Heart English Bible
In the end, it bites like a serpent, and poisons like a viper.

World English Bible
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

American King James Version
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

American Standard Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

A Faithful Version
In the end it bites like an asp and stings like an adder.

Darby Bible Translation
at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

English Revised Version
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Webster's Bible Translation
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
It goeth downe sweetely, but at the last it byteth like a serpent, and stingeth lyke an adder.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
It goeth downe softly, but at the last it byteth like a serpet, and styngeth as an Adder.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, "" And it stings as a viper.

Young's Literal Translation
Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

Smith's Literal Translation
Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

Catholic Public Domain Version
but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and it will spread poison like a king of snakes.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because the end of the wine is like a wound from a serpent and like a flying cockatrice.

Lamsa Bible
For at the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like a basilisk.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.
















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