Proverbs 5:14
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.
American King James Version (AKJV)
I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.
American Standard Version (ASV)
I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
Webster's Revision
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
World English Bible
I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly."
English Revised Version (ERV)
I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Clarke's Proverbs 5:14 Bible Commentary
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.
Barnes's Proverbs 5:14 Bible Commentary
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.
Wesley's Proverbs 5:14 Bible Commentary
5:14 A moment - In how little a time am I now come into remediless misery! Assembly - And that in the congregation of Israel, where I was taught better things.
