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International Version</a></span><br />At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/proverbs/5.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />In the end you will groan in anguish when disease consumes your body.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/proverbs/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/proverbs/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/proverbs/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/proverbs/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And you mourn at last, When your flesh and your body are consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/proverbs/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />And you will groan in the end, When your flesh and your body are consumed;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/proverbs/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />And you groan at your final end, When your flesh and your body are consumed;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/proverbs/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And you groan at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/proverbs/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And you groan at your end, When your flesh and your body are consumed;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/proverbs/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />And you will groan when your <i>life is</i> ending, When your flesh and your body are consumed;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/proverbs/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/proverbs/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/proverbs/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/proverbs/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />When it's all over, your body will waste away, as you groan <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/proverbs/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And thou mourn at thy latter end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/proverbs/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Then you will groan when your end comes, when your body and flesh are consumed. You will say,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/proverbs/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />You will lie groaning on your deathbed, your flesh and muscles being eaten away, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/proverbs/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />You will cry out in anguish when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/proverbs/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/proverbs/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/proverbs/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/proverbs/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/proverbs/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/proverbs/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And you have howled in your latter end, "" In the consumption of your flesh and your food,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/proverbs/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/proverbs/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And thou didst lament in thy latter state, in the consuming of thy flesh and thy fulness,<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/proverbs/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/proverbs/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/proverbs/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />And you groan in the end, when your flesh and your body are consumed; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/proverbs/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />and at the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/proverbs/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And you have remorse in your old age, when the flesh of your body is consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/proverbs/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And your soul moves you to regret in your old age when the flesh of your body is wasted<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/proverbs/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And thou moan, when thine end cometh, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/proverbs/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And thou repent at last, when the flesh of thy body is consumed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/5-11.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kpUA5ZltBeQ?start=816" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/proverbs/5.htm">Avoiding Immorality</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner. <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/319.htm" title="319: ḇə·’a·ḥă·rî·ṯe·ḵā (Prep-b:: N-fsc:: 2ms) -- The after-part, end. From 'achar; the last or end, hence, the future; also posterity.">At the end of your life</a> <a href="/hebrew/5098.htm" title="5098: wə·nā·ham·tā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2ms) -- To growl, groan. A primitive root; to growl.">you will groan</a> <a href="/hebrew/1320.htm" title="1320: bə·śā·rə·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- Flesh. From basar; flesh; by extension, body, person; also The pudenda of a man.">when your flesh</a> <a href="/hebrew/7607.htm" title="7607: ū·šə·’ê·re·ḵā (Conj-w:: N-msc:: 2ms) -- Flesh. From sha'ar; flesh, as living or for food; generally food of any kind; figuratively, kindred by blood.">and your body</a> <a href="/hebrew/3615.htm" title="3615: biḵ·lō·wṯ (Prep-b:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent. A primitive root; to end, whether intransitive or transitived.">are spent,</a> </span><span class="reftext">12</span>and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/12-1.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:1-7</a></span><br />Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,” / before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain, / on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/19-20.htm">Job 19:20-27</a></span><br />My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. / Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. / Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/32-3.htm">Psalm 32:3-4</a></span><br />When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long. / For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-10.htm">Isaiah 57:10</a></span><br />You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/8-20.htm">Jeremiah 8:20</a></span><br />“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/1-9.htm">Lamentations 1:9</a></span><br />Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/24-23.htm">Ezekiel 24:23</a></span><br />Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/7-9.htm">Hosea 7:9</a></span><br />Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-13.htm">Micah 6:13</a></span><br />Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/2-13.htm">Malachi 2:13</a></span><br />And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/7-26.htm">Matthew 7:26-27</a></span><br />But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. / The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/15-14.htm">Luke 15:14-16</a></span><br />After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need. / So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. / He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/6-21.htm">Romans 6:21</a></span><br />What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-15.htm">1 Corinthians 3:15</a></span><br />If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-19.htm">1 Corinthians 6:19-20</a></span><br />Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; / you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,</p><p class="hdg">thou</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/7-23.htm">Proverbs 7:23</a></b></br> Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it <i>is</i> for his life.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/32-29.htm">Deuteronomy 32:29</a></b></br> O that they were wise, <i>that</i> they understood this, <i>that</i> they would consider their latter end!</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/5-31.htm">Jeremiah 5:31</a></b></br> The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love <i>to have it</i> so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?</p><p class="hdg">when</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/5-27.htm">Numbers 5:27</a></b></br> And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, <i>that</i>, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, <i>and become</i> bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/5-4.htm">1 Corinthians 5:4,5</a></b></br> In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/proverbs/4-22.htm">Body</a> <a href="/psalms/119-139.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/psalms/71-9.htm">Consumption</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-4.htm">End</a> <a href="/psalms/73-17.htm">Final</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-22.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-17.htm">Food</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-10.htm">Full</a> <a href="/psalms/139-21.htm">Grief</a> <a href="/psalms/102-20.htm">Groan</a> <a href="/amos/8-3.htm">Howled</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-4.htm">Latter</a> <a href="/psalms/90-9.htm">Moan</a> <a href="/psalms/55-2.htm">Mourn</a> <a href="/psalms/71-9.htm">Spent</a> <a href="/psalms/137-3.htm">Wasted</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/proverbs/6-25.htm">Body</a> <a href="/proverbs/13-23.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-5.htm">Consumption</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-23.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/41-22.htm">Final</a> <a href="/proverbs/11-17.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-8.htm">Food</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-21.htm">Full</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-1.htm">Grief</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-2.htm">Groan</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-39.htm">Howled</a> <a href="/proverbs/19-20.htm">Latter</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-7.htm">Moan</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-2.htm">Mourn</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-11.htm">Spent</a> <a href="/proverbs/21-20.htm">Wasted</a><div class="vheading2">Proverbs 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/5-1.htm">Solomon exhorts to wisdom</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/5-3.htm">He shows the mischief of unfaithfulness and riot</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/5-15.htm">He exhorts to contentedness, generosity, and chastity</a></span><br><span class="reftext">22. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/5-22.htm">The wicked are overtaken with their own sins</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/proverbs/5.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>At the end of your life</b><br />This phrase serves as a sobering reminder of the inevitable conclusion of our earthly journey. The Hebrew word for "end" is "אַחֲרִית" (acharit), which not only refers to the conclusion but also to the outcome or consequence of one's actions. In the context of Proverbs, it emphasizes the importance of living wisely and righteously, as the choices made throughout life culminate in the final assessment before God. The phrase encourages believers to reflect on their spiritual legacy and the eternal impact of their earthly decisions.<p><b>you will groan</b><br />The Hebrew word "נָהַם" (naham) is used here, which conveys a deep, guttural sound of distress or lamentation. This groaning is not merely physical but also spiritual and emotional, reflecting a profound sense of regret and sorrow. In the conservative Christian perspective, this groaning is a consequence of living a life contrary to God's wisdom and commands. It serves as a warning to heed the teachings of Scripture and to avoid the path of folly that leads to such lamentation.<p><b>when your flesh and your body are spent</b><br />The imagery of "flesh" and "body" being "spent" highlights the physical deterioration that accompanies a life lived in sin. The Hebrew word for "flesh" is "בָּשָׂר" (basar), and "body" is "שָׁרִיר" (sharir), both of which emphasize the temporal and fragile nature of human existence. The phrase "are spent" suggests exhaustion and depletion, a vivid picture of the consequences of indulgence in sin. From a conservative Christian viewpoint, this serves as a metaphor for the spiritual decay that results from ignoring God's wisdom. It is a call to live a life of discipline and obedience, ensuring that one's physical and spiritual vitality is preserved for God's glory.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/proverbs/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(11) <span class= "bld">When thy flesh and thy body are consumed.</span>--Ruin of health has followed ruin of property.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/proverbs/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 11.</span> - The last argument is the mental anguish which ensues when health is ruined and wealth is squandered. <span class="cmt_word">And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed.</span> The Hebrew <span class="accented">v'nahamta</span> is rather "and thou groan." It is not the plaintive wailing or the subdued grief of heart which is signified, but the loud wail of lamentation, the groaning indicative of intense mental suffering called forth by the remembrance of past folly, and which sees no remedy in the future. The verb <span class="accented">naham</span> occurs again in <a href="/proverbs/28-15.htm">Proverbs 28:15</a>, where it is used of the roaring of the lion, and the cognate noun <span class="accented">naham</span> is met with in <a href="/proverbs/19-12.htm">Proverbs 19:12</a> and Proverbs 20:2 in the same sense. By Ezekiel it is used of the groaning of the people of Jerusalem when they shall see their sanctuary profaned, their sons and their daughters fall by the sword, and their city destroyed (<a href="/ezekiel/24-23.htm">Ezekiel 24:23</a>). Isaiah (<a href="/isaiah/5-29.htm">Isaiah 5:29, 30</a>) applies it to the <span class="accented">roaring</span> of the sea. The Vulgate reproduces the idea in <span class="accented">gemas</span>, equivalent to "and thou groan." The LXX. rendering, <span class="greek">καὶ μεταμεληθήσῃ</span>, "and thou shelf repent," arising from the adoption of a different pointing, <span class="accented">nikhamta</span>, from the niph. <span class="accented">nikham</span>, "to repent," for <span class="accented">nahamta</span>, to some extent expresses the sense. <span class="accented">At the last</span>; literally, <span class="accented">at thine end</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> when thou art ruined, or, as the teacher explains, <span class="accented">when thy flesh and thy body are consumed.</span> The expression, "thy flesh and thy body," here stands for the whole body, the body in its totality, not the body and the soul, which would be different. Of these two words "the flesh" (<span class="accented">basar</span>) rather denotes the flesh in its strict sense as such (cf. <a href="/job/31-31.htm">Job 31:31</a>; <a href="/job/33-21.htm">Job 33:21</a>), while "body" (<span class="accented">sh'er</span>) is the flesh adhering to the bones. Gesenlus regards them as synonymous terms, stating, however, that <span class="accented">sh'er</span> is the more poetical as to use. The word <span class="accented">basar</span> is used to denote the whole body in ch. 14:30. It is clear that, by the use of these two terms here, the teacher is following a peculiarity observable elsewhere in the Proverbs, of combining two terms to express, and so to give force to, one idea. The expression describes "the utter destruction of the libertine" (Umbreit). This destruction, as further involving the ruin of the soul, is described in ch. 6:32, "Whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding; he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul (<span class="accented">nephesh</span>)" (cf. <a href="/proverbs/7-22.htm">Proverbs 7:22, 23</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/proverbs/5-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">At the end of your life</span><br /><span class="heb">בְאַחֲרִיתֶ֑ךָ</span> <span class="translit">(ḇə·’a·ḥă·rî·ṯe·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_319.htm">Strong's 319: </a> </span><span class="str2">The last, end, the future, posterity</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you will groan</span><br /><span class="heb">וְנָהַמְתָּ֥</span> <span class="translit">(wə·nā·ham·tā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5098.htm">Strong's 5098: </a> </span><span class="str2">To growl, groan</span><br /><br /><span class="word">when your flesh</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּ֝שָׂרְךָ֗</span> <span class="translit">(bə·śā·rə·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1320.htm">Strong's 1320: </a> </span><span class="str2">Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and your body</span><br /><span class="heb">וּשְׁאֵרֶֽךָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(ū·šə·’ê·re·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7607.htm">Strong's 7607: </a> </span><span class="str2">Flesh, as living, for, food, food of any kind, kindred by blood</span><br /><br /><span class="word">are spent,</span><br /><span class="heb">בִּכְל֥וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(biḵ·lō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3615.htm">Strong's 3615: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/proverbs/5-11.htm">Proverbs 5:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/proverbs/5-11.htm">Proverbs 5:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/proverbs/5-11.htm">Proverbs 5:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/proverbs/5-11.htm">Proverbs 5:11 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/proverbs/5-11.htm">Proverbs 5:11 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/proverbs/5-11.htm">Proverbs 5:11 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/proverbs/5-11.htm">Proverbs 5:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/proverbs/5-11.htm">Proverbs 5:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/proverbs/5-11.htm">Proverbs 5:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/proverbs/5-11.htm">Proverbs 5:11 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/proverbs/5-11.htm">OT Poetry: Proverbs 5:11 You will groan at your latter end (Prov. 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