KJV King James Version
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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Proverbs 5:11
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
WEB World English Bible
You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
ASV American Standard Version
And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
Surrounding context — Proverbs 5
8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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Romans 6:21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.Revelation 22:15For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.Numbers 5:27And 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.Hebrews 13:4Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.1 Corinthians 5:4-5In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,Revelation 21:8But 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.Deuteronomy 32:29O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!Proverbs 7:23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.Jeremiah 5:31The 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?
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