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.
Read in contextRevelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Read in contextHebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Read in contextNumbers 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.
Read in context1 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,
Read in contextProverbs 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 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?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
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