💡WEB · Proverbs 5:11

What does Proverbs 5:11 mean?

"You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,"

— Proverbs 5:11 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

8

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

9

lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

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You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

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

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neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

14

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

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