Bible Strands
Proverbs 5:11
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The wisdom teacher addresses a young man cautioned against adultery, projecting forward to the moment of irreversible regret after moral and financial depletion.
The words — נָהַמְתָּ (na.ham.ta) means “you will groan,” and כְּלוֹת (kh.lot) means “wastes away” or “is spent,” describing the physical and material exhaustion that follows indulgence.
The thread — The pattern of shameful outcomes and final exclusion runs through Romans 6:21, which questions what fruit was gained from things now met with shame, and Revelation 22:15, which places the sexually immoral among those kept outside.
Why it lands — It demands immediate recognition that delayed consequences are certain, requiring the reader to abandon self-deception and make a decisive choice before depletion occurs.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Cross-references
- Romans 6:21 What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
- Revelation 22:15 But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Numbers 5:27 When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
- Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Deuteronomy 32:29 If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Proverbs 7:23 until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
- Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- 1 Corinthians 5:4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
- Revelation 21:8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”