Proverbs 5:23
He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
In Context
22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Cross References
Job 4:21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
Proverbs 21:16The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
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 →