Proverbs 23:35 (BSB)

“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?”

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:35

• 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 23:35: They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick,.... Or "grieved not" (x); or was not wounded or skin broken (y); see Jer 5:3. The drunken man is here represented as saying, that though his companions, with whom he quarrelled and fought in his drunken frolics, beat him very much, yet he was not sensible of the pain and smart; and it...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:35: awake--that is, from drunkenness (Gen 9:24). This is the language rather of acts than of the tongue. Next: Proverbs Chapter 24
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 23:35: 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. (q) Though drunkenness makes them more insensible then beasts, yet they can not refrain.