Cross References

Proverbs 5:23

New English Translation

He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

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But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge.

Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.

I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.

He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the Lord our God will destroy them.

Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.

The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.

A person is praised in accordance with his wisdom, but the one who has a twisted mind is despised.

The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.

The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.