Amsal 5:14

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Aku nyaris terjerumus ke dalam tiap malapetaka di tengah-tengah jemaah dan perkumpulan."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Aku nyaris terjerumus ke dalam tiap malapetaka di tengah-tengah jemaah dan perkumpulan."

Contextual Overview

¹ My sonne geue heede vnto my wisdome, and bowe thyne eare vnto my prudence: ² That thou mayest regarde good counsell, and that thy lippes may kepe knowledge. ³ For the lippes of a straunge woman are a dropping hony combe, and her throte is more glistering then oyle: ⁴ But at the laste she is as bitter as wormewood, and as sharpe as a two edged sworde. ⁵ Her feete go downe vnto death, and her steppes pearce thorowe vnto hell. ⁶ Perchaunce thou wylt ponder the path of her lyfe: so vnstedfast are her wayes that thou canst not know them. ⁷ Heare me nowe therefore O ye chyldren, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth. ⁸ Kepe thy way farre from her, & come not nigh the doores of her house. ⁹ That thou geue not thy honour vnto other, and thy yeres to the cruell: ¹⁰ That other men be not filled with thy vertues, and that thy labours come not in a straunge house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 13:20, Numbers 25:1-6, Hosea 4:11-14, 1 Corinthians 10:6-8, 2 Peter 2:10-18, Jude 1:7 -13

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 8:6 - even

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I was almost in all evil,.... Scarce a sin but he was guilty of; contempt of private and public instructions, the instructions of parents and ministers of the Gospel, and following lewd women, commonly lead to the commission of all other sins, even the most atrocious. Some understand this, not of the evil of sin, but of the evil of punishment; and that the sense is, that there is scarce any calamity, distress, or misery, that a man can be in, but his profaneness and lewdness had brought him into; and he was just upon the brink of hell itself: and so Jarchi paraphrases it,

"there was but a step between me and hell.''

Aben Ezra observes, that the past is put for the future, "I shall be"; and then the meaning is, in a little or in a short time I shall be in complete misery; and so they are the words of one under consciousness of sin, despairing of mercy;

in the midst of the congregation and the assembly; that is, either be despised and neglected the instructions which were given in a public manner; or he committed all the evil he did openly; not only in company with wicked men, which he frequented, but even in the presence and before the people of God; yea, before the civil magistrates, the great sanhedrim, which is sometimes designed by the last word here used: or when he was in the house of God, attending public worship, his eyes were full of adultery, and his heart of impure lusts; and neither place, service, nor people of God, where he was, commanded any awe and reverence in him, nor in the least restrained his unclean thoughts and wanton desires; and which is mentioned as an aggravation of guilt. Or else the sense is, that his calamities and miseries were as public as his crimes; he was made a public example of, and all the people were witnesses of it; which served to spread his infamy, and make his punishment the more intolerable: both the sins and punishment of those that commit fornication with the whore of Rome will be public and manifest, Revelation 18:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The conscience-stricken sinner had been “almost” given up to every form of evil in the sight of the whole assembly of fellow-townsmen; “almost,” therefore, condemned to the death which that assembly might inflict Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22. The public scandal of the sin is brought in as its last aggravating feature.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 5:14. I was almost in all evil — This vice, like a whirlpool, sweeps all others into its vortex.

In the midst of the congregation and assembly. — In the mydel of the Curche and of the Synagoge - Old MS. Bible. Such persons, however sacred the place, carry about with them eyes full of adultery, which cannot cease from sin.