Proverbs 5:23
He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
In Context
22The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
Cross References
Job 4:21If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?
Psalms 81:12\81:11\But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
Proverbs 10:21The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.
Proverbs 14:14He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.
Proverbs 21:16The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:16-23
Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange… Read the whole commentary →