Proverbs 5 · Verse 11

Proverbs 5:11

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Proverbs 5:11, King James Version

Proverbs 5:11 in other translations

BSBAt the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
WEBYou will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
ASVAnd thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
YLTAnd thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
DARBYand thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
BBEAnd you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
WebsterAnd thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

What does Proverbs 5:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. at the last--the end, or reward (compare Pr 5:4). mourn--roar in pain. flesh and ... body--the whole person under incurable disease.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 When 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 the hoarse incessant murmuring of the sea. In the line of my duty, I have been often called to attend the death-bed of such persons, where groans and shrieks were incessant through the jaculating pains in their bones and flesh. Whoever has witnessed a closing scene like this will at once perceive with what force and propriety the wise man speaks. And How have I hated instruction, and despised the voice of my teachers! is the unavailing cry in that terrific time. Reader, whosoever thou art, lay these things to heart. Do not enter into their sin: once entered, thy return is nearly hopeless.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 5:1-14

Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand idolatry, false doctrine, which tends to lead astray men's minds and manners; but the direct view is to warn against seventh-commandment sins. Often these have been, and still are, Satan's method of drawing men from the worship of God into false religion. Consider how fatal the consequences…

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Proverbs 5:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְנָהַמְתָּ֥ve.na.ham.Taand you will groanH5098
בְאַחֲרִיתֶ֑ךָve.'a.cha.ri.Te.khaat end yourH319
בִּכְל֥וֹתbikh.Lotwhen wastes awayH3615
בְּ֝שָׂרְךָ֗be.sa.re.khaflesh yourH1320
וּשְׁאֵרֶֽךָ\׃u.she.'e.Re.khaand body yourH7607

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 5:11

  • Romans 6:21

    What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

  • Revelation 22:15

    For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

  • Hebrews 13:4

    Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

  • Numbers 5:27

    And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

  • 1 Corinthians 5:4-5

    In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

  • Proverbs 7:23

    Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

  • Jeremiah 5:31

    The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

  • Deuteronomy 32:29

    O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

  • Revelation 21:8

    But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
thou.
7:23; De 32:29; Jer 5:31; Ro 6:21; Heb 13:4; Re 21:8; 22:15
when.
Nu 5:27; 1Co 5:4,5

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Context

  • Proverbs 5:10

    Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

  • Proverbs 5:11

    And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

  • Proverbs 5:12

    And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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Proverbs 5:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y gimas en tus postrimerías, cuando se consumiere tu carne y tu cuerpo,
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et que tu ne gémisses à ta fin, quand ta chair et ton corps se consumeront;
German
Elberfelder 1871		und du nicht stöhnest bei deinem Ende, wenn dein Fleisch und dein Leib dahinschwinden, und sagest:
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et gemas in novissimis, quando consumpseris carnes tuas et corpus tuum, et dicas: