Proverbs 5:11

9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

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 had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

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  • Revelation 22:15

    For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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  • Hebrews 13:4

    Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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  • Numbers 5:27

    And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

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  • 1 Corinthians 5:4–5

    In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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  • Proverbs 7:23

    Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

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  • Jeremiah 5:31

    The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

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  • Deuteronomy 32:29

    O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

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