en_tn/pro/23/31.md

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# General Information:
These verses continue the "thirty sayings" ([Proverbs 22:20](../22/20.md)).
# In the last
"After you drink it"
# it bites like a serpent ... it stings like an adder
The word "it" refers to "the wine when it is red." "Bites" and "stings" are metaphors for the way too much wine makes people feel. AT: "it makes you feel as bad as if a serpent had bitten you or an adder had stung you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
# adder
a type of poisonous snake
# your heart will utter perverse things
The "heart" represents the person and emphasize what he thinks and decides to do. AT: "you will think about and decide to do perverse things" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
# perverse things
things that God says are morally wrong and bad; things that are wicked
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/wine]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/serpent]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heart]]