Proverbs 5:11

“And thou mourn at the last, etc.] Or roar as a lion, as the wordf114 signifies; (see <201912>Proverbs 19:12 20:2 28:15); expressing great distress of mind, horror of conscience, and vehement lamentations; and yet not having and exercising true repentance, but declaring a worldly sorrow, which worketh death. This mourning is too late, and not so much on account of the evil of sin as the evil that comes by it; it is when the man could have no pleasure from it and in it; when he has not only lost his substance by it, but his health also, the loss of both which must be very distressing: it is at the end of life, in his last days; in his old age, as the Syriac version, when he can no longer…”

“at the last--the end, or reward (compare Pro 5:4). mourn--roar in pain. flesh and . . . body--the whole person under incurable disease.”

“Yet one more curse is attendant on impurity. Then, as now, disease was the penalty of this sin. return to 'Top of Page'”

“5:11 Some sexually transmitted diseases were well known in the ancient Near East. Leviticus 15:1-15 describes what is probably gonorrhea; other texts from Mesopotamia describe “the disease of intercourse” and the “disease of Ishtar” (goddess of love) with the physical symptoms of venereal diseases.”

“thou: Pro 7:23; Deu 32:29; Jer 5:31; Rom 6:21; Heb 13:4; Rev 21:8, Rev 22:15 when: Num 5:27; Co1 5:4, Co1 5:5 Proverbs 5:12”