Proverbs 5:23 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²³ He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ He shall die without instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ He will die for lack of discipline and instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray and be lost.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Common English Bible

²³ Those without instruction will die, misled by their own stupidity.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ He shall die, for he has not held to discipline. And by the multitude of his foolishness, he shall be deceived.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

Proverbs 5:23 Cross References

Job 36:12

But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

Job 4:21

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? They die, even without wisdom.

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

Psalm 94:23

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

Proverbs 1:31

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

Proverbs 12:8

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

Proverbs 14:14

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

Proverbs 21:16

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.