Bible verse
“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 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 23.
31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
32 In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
35 “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?”
KJV
They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
ASV
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
ERV
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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