Proverbs 5:11
9 lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
- KJV
- And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
- WEB
- You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
- ASV
- And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
- DARBY
- and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
- BLB
- and you groan at your end, in the consumption of your flesh and your body,
- ÅB
- så du må stønne i din siste stund, når din kropp og ditt kjøtt tæres bort,
- OTB
- og til slutt vil du stønne når ditt kjøtt og din kropp er fortært,
- B1930
- så du må stønne i din siste stund, når din kropp og ditt kjøtt tæres bort,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 6:21
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
Read in contextRevelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Read in contextHebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Read in contextNumbers 5:27
When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
Read in context1 Corinthians 5:4–5
When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
Read in contextProverbs 7:23
until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
Read in contextJeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:29
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
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