Proverbs 5:22
Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
Brenton Septuagint
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 a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.
Cross References
Numbers 32:23But if ye will not do so, ye will sin against the Lord; and ye shall know your sin, when afflictions shall come upon you.
1 Kings 18:18And Eliu said, I do not pervert Israel; but it is thou and thy father's house, in that ye forsake the Lord your God, and thou hast gone after Baalim.
Job 18:8His foot also has been caught in a snare, and let it be entangled in a net.
Psalms 9:15that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in thy salvation.
Proverbs 1:18For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
Proverbs 11:3+ 11:3 the Alexandrine text reads: “The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the overthrow of the rebellious shall spoil them.”When a just man dies he + 11:3 Comp. Heb.leaves regret: but the destruction of the ungodly is speedy, and causes joy.
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 →