Catholic Public Domain Version
"and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say: "
— Proverbs 5:11, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ”
“You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,”
“And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.”
“And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;”
“And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,”
Make your way at a distance from her, and do not approach the doors of her house.
Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.
Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,
and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:
“Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?
And why have I not listened to the voice of those who guided me? And why has my ear not inclined to my teachers?
I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly.”