Proverbs 5:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ They die for lack of discipline, and because of their great folly they are lost.

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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 do not listen, they shall perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

Job 4:21

Their tent cord is plucked up within them, and they die devoid of wisdom.’

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

Psalm 94:23

He will repay them for their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.

Proverbs 1:31

therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Proverbs 12:8

One is commended for good sense, but a perverse mind is despised.

Proverbs 14:14

The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.