Proverbs 5:23
He dies without instruction, || And magnifies himself in the abundance of his folly!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
In Context
22His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
Cross References
Job 4:21Has their excellence not been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”
Psalms 81:12And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, || They walk in their own counsels.
Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous delight many, || And fools die for lack of heart.
Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart is filled from his ways, || And a good man—from his fruits.
Proverbs 21:16A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, || Rests in an assembly of Rephaim.
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 →