Proverbs 5:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

His own iniquities... — The final scene in the life of the profligate is here described. He has sinned so long that he is “tied and bound,” hand and foot, with the “chain of his sins,” and cannot get free even had he the wish to do so.

Proverbs 5:22-23

22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.d

23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.