Cross references

Proverbs 5:23

He dies for lack of discipline,

led astray by his own great folly.

Proverbs 5:23 BSB

Proverbs 5:23 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 36:12 (8 votes) and Job 4:21 (6 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from 2 Samuel 13 to 2 Peter 2.

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Which verses does Proverbs 5:23 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Job 36:128 votes

    But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

  2. Job 4:216 votes

    Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

  3. They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness. …

  4. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.

  5. The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

  6. So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

  7. The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.

Which verses point to Proverbs 5:23?

The 10 strongest of 14.