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Proverbs 5:22

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

KJV

Iniquitates suas capiunt impium, et funibus peccatorum suorum constringitur.

Vulgate

παρανομίαι ἄνδρα ἀγρεύουσιν, σειραῖς δὲ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτιῶν ἕκαστος σφίγγεται.

LXX

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

ASV

עַֽווֹנוֹתָ֗י/ו יִלְכְּדֻ/נ֥וֹ אֶת הָ/רָשָׁ֑ע וּ/בְ/חַבְלֵ֥י חַ֝טָּאת֗/וֹ יִתָּמֵֽךְ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
הּ
h
verb · 121×
חֶ֣בֶל
chbl
noun · 61×
חַטָּ֖את
cht't
noun · 298×
ם
m
noun · 230×
רְשָׁעִ֣ים
rsh'ym
adjective · 257×
תוֹמֵ֥ךְ
tvmk
verb · 21×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

One and the same God, the Creator of heaven and earth, is He whom the prophets foretold, and who was declared by the Gospel. Proof of this, at the outset, from St. Matthew's Gospel. 1. This, therefore, having been clearly demonstrated here (and it shall yet be so still more clearly), that neither the prophets, nor the apostles, nor the Lord Christ in His own person, did acknowl…
1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven. And the Sadducees and Pharisees came, and tempting Him kept asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 The Sadducees and Pharisees who disagreed with each other in regard to the most essential truths, — for the Pharisees champion the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, hoping that there will …
1. Relation of the Baptist to Elijah. The Theory of Transmigration Considered. The disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come? Matthew 17:10 The disciples indeed who went up with Jesus remembered the traditions of the scribes concerning Elijah, that before the advent of Christ, Elijah would come and prepare for Him the souls of those who w…

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 2:44 — The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
  • Acts 8:23 — For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
  • Eph 5:5 — For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
  • Hos 4:11 — Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
  • Jer 44:7 — Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to
  • Job 36:8 — And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
  • John 8:34 — Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
  • Judg 9:56 — Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
  • Judg 16:21 — But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
  • Lam 1:14 — The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able
  • Prov 1:18 — And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
  • Prov 1:18 — And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
  • Prov 1:31 — Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
  • Prov 2:22 — But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
  • Prov 8:36 — But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
  • Prov 11:5 — The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Prov 11:5 — The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Prov 11:6 — The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
  • Prov 11:18 — The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
  • Ps 7:15 — He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
  • Ps 9:15 — The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
  • Ps 9:15 — The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
  • Ps 10:2 — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
  • Ps 35:8 — Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
  • Ps 94:23 — And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.