Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
Darby Translation
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
21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.
23He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Cross References
Numbers 32:23But if ye do not do so, behold, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and be sure your sin will find you out.
1 Kings 18:18And he said, I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of Jehovah, and thou hast followed the Baals.
Job 18:8For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
Psalms 9:15The nations are sunk down in the pit [that] they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken.
Proverbs 1:18And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright guideth them; but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroyeth 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 →