Verse 23

He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:21 : 21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?
  • Job 36:12 : 12 But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.
  • Prov 14:14 : 14 He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
  • 2 Pet 2:15-22 : 15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing; 16 But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet. 17 These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store. 18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error; 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him. 20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it. 22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.