Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
In Context
21The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.
Cross References
Numbers 32:23But if you do not do what you have said, no one could doubt that you will have sinned against God. And know this: your sin shall overtake you.
1 Kings 18:18And he said: “I have not troubled Israel. But it is you, and the house of your father, who have abandoned the commandments of the Lord, and have followed the Baals.
Job 18:8For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.
Psalms 9:15You lift me up from the gates of death, so that I may announce all your praises at the gates of the daughter of Zion.
Proverbs 1:18Likewise, they lie in ambush against their own blood, and they undertake deceits against their own souls.
Proverbs 11:3The simplicity of the just shall direct them, and the rebellion of the perverse will devastate them.
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 →