Proverbs 23:29 (BSB)

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:29

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:29-35: Solomon here gives fair warning against the sin of drunkenness, to confirm what he had said, Pro 23:20. I. He cautions all people to keep out of the way of temptations to this sin (Pro 23:31): Look not thou upon the wine when it is red. Red wine was in Canaan looked upon as the best wine, it is therefore called the blood of the grape.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:29: Who hath woe?.... In this world and in the other, in body and soul; diseases of body, distress of mind, waste of substance, and all manner of evils and calamities; if any man has these, the drunkard has: from whoredom, the Holy Ghost proceeds to drunkenness, which generally go together; and dissuades from it, by observing the mischiefs that come by it; who hath sorrow?
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:29: This picture is often sadly realized now. mixed wine--(Compare Pro 9:2; Isa 5:11).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 23:29-35: Pro 23:29-35 The author passes from the sin of uncleanness to that of drunkenness; they are nearly related, for drunkenness excites fleshly lust; and to wallow with delight in the mire of sensuality, a man, created in the image of God, must first brutalize himself by intoxication. The Mashal in the number of its lines passes beyond the limits of the distich, and becomes a Mashal ode.