Proverbs 23:29-35 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?… I. THE EVILS OF DRUNKENNESS. 1. Sorrow (ver. 29). Drink has probably broken more hearts than any other thing. It is taken to drown sorrow, but, alas! it creates it. 2. Folly. "Babbling" — a profanation of the sacred gift of speech, and as such is to be avoided (1 Timothy 6:20). 3. Disease. "Wounds." Look in at the hospitals. Read the medical reports. 4. Disfigurement. "Redness cf the eyes." 5. Waste of time. "Tarry long." 6. Dissatisfaction. "Yet again" (ver. 35). Drink creates an insatiable appetite for itself. 7. Insensibility. "Felt it not" (ver. 35). The nerves of the drunkard are benumbed, and nature's monitors are impaired. Physical insensibility is followed by moral insensibility (Ephesians 4:19). 8. Uncleanness. Drink fires the passions, and gives the "strange women" (ver. 33) their best opportunities. 9. Exposure to danger (ver. 34). II. THE REMEDY FOR DRUNKENNESS (ver 31). It is very simple. Abstain from strong drink — don't even look at it. Temptation sometimes enters through the eye. But beyond and above all look to Jesus for deliverance from this and every other form of evil. (H. Thorne.) Parallel Verses KJV: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? |
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