Proverbs 5:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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.

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    22The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

  • Prov 15:10
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    10There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

  • Prov 21:16
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    16The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

  • Prov 10:17
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    17He who takes note of teaching is a way of life, but he who gives up training is a cause of error.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

  • Prov 1:31-32
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    31So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

    32For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

  • Prov 19:2-3
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    2Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

    3By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • Prov 15:5
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    5A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.

  • Prov 16:22
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    22Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.

  • Prov 14:7-8
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    7Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.

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  • Job 36:12
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    12But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

  • Eccl 10:3
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    3And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.

  • Prov 9:6
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    6Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

  • Prov 19:16
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    16He who keeps the law keeps his soul; but death will be the fate of him who takes no note of the word.

  • Prov 14:12
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    12There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Eccl 7:17
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    17Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

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    1A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

  • Prov 17:25
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    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

  • Job 5:2
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    2For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

  • Prov 22:15
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    15Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

  • Job 18:7
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    7The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

  • Prov 16:25
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    25There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

  • Ezek 3:20
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    20Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

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    32He who will not be controlled by training has no respect for his soul, but he who gives ear to teaching will get wisdom.

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    23Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

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    21If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

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    18He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.