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.

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  • Revelation 22:15

    But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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  • Hebrews 13:4

    Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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  • Numbers 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.

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  • 1 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,

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  • Proverbs 7:23

    until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.

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  • Jeremiah 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?

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  • Deuteronomy 32:29

    If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

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