Proverbs 5:14
As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
In Context
15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
Cross References
Psalms 73:2As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,
Proverbs 13:20Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.
1 Corinthians 10:6and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.
Jude 1:7as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before — an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.
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 →