Proverbs 5:23
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
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Cross references
- Job 36:12 But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
- Job 4:21 Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
- 2 Peter 2:15–17 Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.