Proverbs 5:23 Cross References - Rotherham

²³ He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost.

²¹ Is not their tent–rope within them, torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!

¹² But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.

¹² So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart,[––] They might walk in their own counsels!

²¹ The lips of the righteous, feed multitudes, but, the foolish, for lack of sense, shall die.

¹⁴ With his own ways, shall be filled the backslider in heart, and, from himself, shall a good man [be satisfied].

³² By his own wickedness, shall the lawless man, be thrust down, but the righteous, seeketh refuge in his integrity.

¹⁵ Forsaking a straight path, they have gone astray, following out the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved, a reward of wrong, ¹⁶ But had, a reproof, of his own transgression, a dumb beast of burden, in man’s voice, finding utterance, forbade the prophet’s madness. ¹⁷ These, are fountains without water, and mists, by a tempest, driven along,––for whom, the gloom of darkness, hath been reserved; ¹⁸ For, great swelling words of vanity, uttering, they entice with carnal covetings––in wanton ways––them who are, well–nigh, escaping from the men who, in error, have their behaviour; ¹⁹ Promising, freedom to them, they themselves, being all the while, slaves of corruption,––for, by whom one hath been defeated, by the same, hath he become enslaved,–– ²⁰ For, if, having escaped from the defilements of the world by a personal knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but, by the same having again become entangled, they are defeated, the, last, state hath become, for them, worse than, the first; ²¹ For, better, had it been for them––not to have obtained a personal knowledge of the way of righteousness, than, having obtained such knowledge, to turn back out of the holy commandment delivered unto them. ²² There hath befallen them the thing [spoken of] in the true proverb––A dog, turning back unto his own vomit, and––A sow, as soon as washed, unto wallowing in mire.