Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
In Context
21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his activities.
23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Cross References
Numbers 32:23But if all of you will not do so, behold, all of you have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
1 Kings 18:18And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that all of you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and you have followed Baalim.
Job 18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.
Psalms 9:15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Proverbs 1:18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.
Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
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 →