Christian Standard Bible
Proverbs 5:11
11At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed,
Proverbs 5:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
- New International Version (NIV)At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.
- English Standard Version (ESV)and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
- New King James Version (NKJV)And you mourn at last, When your flesh and your body are consumed,
Context of Proverbs 5:11
9Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel; 10strangers will drain your resources, and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house. At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed, 12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction. 13I didn’t obey my teachers or listen closely to my instructors.
Read all of Proverbs 5Proverbs 5:11 word by word
וְנָהַמְתָּ֥ בְאַחֲרִיתֶ֑ךָ בִּכְל֥וֹת בְּ֝שָׂרְךָ֗ וּשְׁאֵרֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 5:11
- Proverbs 7:23until an arrow pierces its liver, like a bird darting into a snare — he doesn’t know it will cost him his life.
- Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, they would comprehend this; they would understand their fate.
- Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?
- Romans 6:21So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.
- Hebrews 13:4Marriage is to be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Revelation 21:8But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars — their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
- Revelation 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Numbers 5:27“When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her womb will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people.
- 1 Corinthians 5:4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
Commentaries on Proverbs 5:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11When thy flesh and thy body are consumed - The word שאר shear, which we render body, signifies properly the remains, residue, or remnant of a thing: and is applied here to denote the breathing carcass, putrid with the concomitant disease of debauchery: a public reproach which the justice of God entails on this species of iniquity. The mourning here spoken of is of the most excessive kind: the word נהם naham is often applied to the growling of a lion, and…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Yet one more curse is attendant on impurity. Then, as now, disease was the penalty of this sin.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11People in the ancient Near East were familiar with some sexually transmitted diseases. Leviticus 15:1–15 likely describes gonorrhea. Other Mesopotamian texts mention “the disease of intercourse” and the “disease of Ishtar” (goddess of love), which show symptoms of venereal diseases.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. at the last--the end, or reward (compare Pr 5:4). mourn--roar in pain. flesh and ... body--the whole person under incurable disease.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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