Proverbs 5:11 (BSB)
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
From Proverbs 5. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 5:11
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 5:1-14: Here we have, I. A solemn preface, to introduce the caution which follows, Pro 5:1, Pro 5:2. Solomon here addresses himself to his son, that is, to all young men, as unto his children, whom he has an affection for and some influence upon. In God's name, he demands attention; for he writes by divine inspiration, and is a prophet, though he begins not with, Thus saith the Lord.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 5:11: And thou mourn at the last,.... Or roar as a lion, as the word (s) signifies; see Pro 19:12; expressing great distress of mind, horror of conscience, and vehement lamentations; and yet not having and exercising true repentance, but declaring a worldly sorrow, which worketh death.
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 5:11: at the last--the end, or reward (compare Pro 5:4). mourn--roar in pain. flesh and . . . body--the whole person under incurable disease.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 5:7-11: Pro 5:7-11 The eighth discourse springs out of the conclusion of the seventh, and connects itself by its reflective מעליה so closely with it that it appears as its continuation; but the new beginning and its contents included in it, referring only to social life, secures its relative independence. The poet derives the warning against intercourse with the adulteress from the preceding discourse, and grounds it on the destructive consequences.