Proverbs 5 · Verse 14

Proverbs 5:14

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Proverbs 5:14, King James Version

Proverbs 5:14 in other translations

BSBI am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
WEBI have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
ASVI was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
YLTAs a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
DARBYI was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
BBEI was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
WebsterI was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

What does Proverbs 5:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 5:12-14

12-14. The ruined sinner vainly laments his neglect of warning and his sad fate in being brought to public disgrace.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 I was almost in all evil - This vice, like a whirlpool, sweeps all others into its vortex. In the midst of the congregation and assembly - In the mydel of the Curche and of the Synagoge - Old MS. Bible. Such persons, however sacred the place, carry about with them eyes full of adultery, which cannot cease from sin.

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 5:14 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.

כִּ֭מְעַטKim.'atlike a littleH4592
הָיִ֣יתִיha.Yi.tiI wasH1961
בְכָל\־ve.khol-in everyH3605
רָ֑עRa'calamityH7451
בְּת֖וֹךְbe.Tokhin amongH8432
קָהָ֣לka.Hal[the] assemblyH6951
וְעֵדָֽה\׃ve.'e.Dahand [the] congregationH5712

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

Cross references for Proverbs 5:14

  • Proverbs 13:20

    He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

  • 2 Peter 2:10-18

    But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; …

  • 1 Corinthians 10:6-8

    Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

  • Hosea 4:11-14

    Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

  • Numbers 25:1-6

    And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baal–peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. …

  • Jude 1:7-13

    Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
13:20; Nu 25:1-6; Ho 4:11-14; 1Co 10:6-8; 2Pe 2:10-18; Jude 1:7-13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Proverbs 5:13

    And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

  • Proverbs 5:14

    I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

  • Proverbs 5:15

    Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

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Proverbs 5:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Casi en todo mal he estado, en medio de la sociedad y de la congregación.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Peu s’en est fallu que je n’aie été dans toute sorte de mal, au milieu de la congrégation et de l’assemblée.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wenig fehlte, so wäre ich in allem Bösen gewesen, inmitten der Versammlung und der Gemeinde.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
pene fui in omni malo, in medio ecclesiæ et synagogæ.