Proverbs 5:22 - The Scriptures 1998

²² The wrong one is entrapped In his own crookednesses, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

Common English Bible

²² The wicked will be caught by their own evil acts, grabbed by the ropes of their own sin.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.

Proverbs 5:22 Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

And he answered, “I have not disturbed Yisra’ĕ

Esther 9:25

But when she came before the sovereign, he commanded by letter that his evil plot which Haman had plotted against the Yehuḏ

Job 18:8

For he is sent into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pit-fall.

Psalm 40:12

For evils without number have surrounded me; My crookednesses have overtaken me, And I have been unable to see; They became more than the hairs of my head; And my heart has failed me.

Psalm 9:15

The gentiles have sunk down in the pit which they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.

Psalm 9:17

The wrong return to the grave, All the gentiles that forget Elohim.

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood, They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the straight ones guides them, But the slipperiness of the treacherous destroys them.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the perfect Makes his way straight, But by his own wrongness the wrong one falls.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the straight ones delivers them, But the treacherous are caught by greed.

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of his mouth one is filled with good, And the work of a man’s hands is given back to him.

Proverbs 14:32

By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool’s mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his life.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, “See, we did not know this,” Would not He who weighs the hearts discern it? He who watches over your life, Would He not know it? And shall He not repay man according to his work?

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit falls into it, And whoever rolls a stone, it turns back on him.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are shackles. He who pleases Elohim escapes from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Jeremiah 2:19

“Your own evil instructs you, and your backslidings reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter that you have forsaken יהוה  your Elohim, and that My fear is not in you,” declares the Master יהוה  of hosts.

Lamentations 1:14

“The yoke of my transgressions Has been bound by His hand, Woven together and thrust upon my neck. He has made my strength stumble, יהוה  has given me into hands Which I am unable to withstand.

Obadiah 1:15

“For the day of יהוה  is near upon all the gentiles. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your reward shall come back on your own head.

Numbers 32:23

“But if you do not do so, then see, you shall sin against יהוה, and know: your sin is going to find you out.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be respected by all, and the bed be undefiled. But Elohim shall judge those who whore, and adulterers.

Judges 20:41

And when the men of Yisra’ĕ

Judges 9:57

And all the evil of the men of Sheḵ