Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
Young's Literal Translation
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 over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.
23He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
Cross References
Numbers 32:23'And if ye do not so, lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and know ye your sin, that it doth find you;
1 Kings 18:18And he saith, 'I have not troubled Israel, but thou and the house of thy father, in your forsaking the commands of Jehovah, and thou goest after the Baalim;
Job 18:8For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
Psalms 9:15Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.
Proverbs 1:18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth 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 →