Proverbs 5:23
He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 4:21Is not their tent-rope within them, torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!
Psalms 81:12So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart,[—] They might walk in their own counsels!
Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous, feed multitudes, but, the foolish, for lack of sense, shall die.
Proverbs 14:14With his own ways, shall be filled the backslider in heart, and, from himself, shall a good man [be satisfied].
Proverbs 21:16The man who wandereth from the way of discretion, in the gathered host of the shades, shall settle down.
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 →