Proverbs 23:32

10 songs meet this passage

• “One more night could kill me baby”

  You and Tequila (feat. Grace Potter) · Kenny Chesney

  resonates with Proverbs 23:32

  The song's own warning (that this pull 'bites like a serpent') matches the proverb's picture of a pleasure that turns lethal.

• “All of this drinkin' and smokin' is hopeless”

  Save Me · Jelly Roll

  strains against Proverbs 23:29-32

  Proverbs names the exact trap the narrator describes, drink that promises relief but ultimately bites like a serpent, highlighting the hopelessness he admits to.

• “Now I'm up all night drinkin' poison”

  Floods · Lucky Daye

  strains against Proverbs 23:29-32

  Scripture names numbing pain with drink as a trap, not relief; the song treats it as the only way to cope, missing that warning.

• “I'm gonna lose my baby, so I always keep a bottle near”

  Rehab · Amy Winehouse

  strains against Proverbs 23:29-32

  She names the pain driving her drinking and then reaches for more of it, the very cycle this passage describes.

• “My vision's blurred, my words slurred”

  Bottoms Up · Trey Songz

  strains against Proverbs 23:29-32

  Proverbs paints drunken stupor as misery, not the 'hero' status the song assigns it.

• “he lives with the bottle”

  Fast Car · Luke Combs

  strains against Proverbs 23:29-35

  The father's drinking and its toll on the family illustrates the very warning Proverbs gives about the bottle's cost to those who depend on him.

• “go mad for a couple grams”

  The A Team · Ed Sheeran

  resonates with Proverbs 23:29-35

  Proverbs' portrait of a person enslaved to a substance, craving more even as it destroys them, mirrors her cycle exactly.

• “scatter like ice from the spoon”

  Black Balloon · Goo Goo Dolls

  strains against Proverbs 23:31-32

  Where Proverbs warns against what bites like a serpent, the song simply watches the substance take hold without framing it as a warning, just a lament.

• “looking like a high I wanna be on”

  Sure Be Cool If You Did · Blake Shelton

  strains against Proverbs 23:31-32

  Describing a person as an intoxicating 'high' romanticizes losing control to desire, echoing the warning against being captivated by what dulls judgment.

• “Your metaphorical gin and juice”

  Hands To Myself · Selena Gomez

  strains against Proverbs 23:31-32

  The song romanticizes intoxication as a metaphor for longing, while Proverbs warns against being drawn in by what looks appealing but bites like a serpent.