Proverbs 5:23

Contemporary English Version 1995

They get lost and die because of their foolishness and lack of self-control.

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But if they foolishly refuse, they will be rewarded with a violent death.

Your tent pegs are pulled up, and you leave this life, having gained no wisdom.”

In times of trouble the wicked are destroyed, but even at death the innocent have faith.

Many are helped by useful instruction, but fools are killed by their own stupidity.

You harvest what you plant, whether good or bad.

So I let you be stubborn and keep on following your own advice.

“Now you will eat the fruit of what you have done, until you are stuffed full with your own schemes.

You will pay back my enemies, and you will wipe them out for the evil they did.

Good sense is worthy of praise, but stupidity is a curse.

If you stop using good sense, you will find yourself in the grave.