Proverbs 5:14
As a little thing I have been all evil, || In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
In Context
13And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, || And have not inclined my ear to my teachers.
15Drink waters out of your own cistern, || Even flowing ones out of your own well.
Cross References
Psalms 73:2As nothing, my steps have slipped, || For I have been envious of the boastful,
Proverbs 13:20Whoever is walking with wise men is wise, || And a companion of fools suffers evil.
1 Corinthians 10:6and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these desired.
Jude 1:7as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these [messengers], having given themselves to whoredom, and having gone after other flesh, have been set before [as] an example, undergoing the justice of continuous fire.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7… Read the whole commentary →