Proverbs 23:35 meaning and explanation
“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?”
Proverbs 23:35, Berean Standard Bible
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These are the words of a person in the grip of drunkenness, quoted at the end of a father's warning about wine in Proverbs 23. The speaker has been beaten and did not feel it; he has lost awareness of what happened to him.
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