Proverbs 5:23
He will indeed die for want of correction; and through the abundance of his folly will he sink into error.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
In Context
Cross References
Job 4:21Behold, their excellency which is in them is torn away: they die, and this without wisdom.
Psalms 81:12(81:13) So I let them go in the stubbornness of their own hearts: and they walked in their own counsels.
Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die through lack of sense.
Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart will have enough of his own ways; and from him [departeth] the good men.
Proverbs 21:16The man that wandereth astray out of the way of intelligence shall rest in the assembly of the departed.
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 →