Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 23:35

35 They have stricken me ; shalt thou say; and I was not sick ; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when I shall awake, I will seek it yet again .

I cannot deny that I exposed my self by my Drunkenness to manifold abuses and injuries.

I was not then sensible of it, neither do I now find any great hurt by it; it was but the effect of a present frolick, at which I have no cause to be much troubled.

At present I find some inconvenience, and my condition requires sleep to settle my self, and when I am composed and refreshed, I purpose to return to my former course. But that which Solomon here expresseth, seems rather to be the Language of their Hearts or Lives, than of their actions. Compare Prov. 1. 11.

Marginal references: Heb. I knew it not.