Proverbs 23:32-35
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities. You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast: “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?”
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Proverbs 23
6 songs meet this passage
“when you're high, you never ever wanna come down”
Welcome To The Jungle · Guns N' Roses
resonates with Proverbs 23:32-35
Captures the same cycle of craving more after the high, numb to the danger it brings.
“Now I'm up all night drinkin' poison”
Floods · Lucky Daye
strains against Proverbs 23:29-32
Scripture warns that numbing pain with drink only deepens confusion rather than resolving the hurt beneath it.
“Always tryna send me off to rehab”
The Hills · The Weeknd
strains against Proverbs 23:29-35
Proverbs names the cycle of drunkenness and craving for more as misery, while the narrator dismisses help and romanticizes the relapse.
“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.
“Please don't throw up in the car we almost crash”
Drunk and Hot Girls (feat. Mos Def) · Kanye West
strains against Proverbs 23:31-32
Drunkenness here is played for laughs and irritation rather than acknowledged as something that actually harms the person swept up in it.
Lighters Up · Lil' Kim
resonates with Proverbs 23:35
This captures the same cycle Proverbs describes: resolving to stop and immediately reaching for more, numb to the pattern.
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