22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. …
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. …
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-23)Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them. I. Enjoy with satisfaction the comforts of lawful marriage, which was ordained for the prevention of uncleanness, and therefore ought to be made use of in time, lest it should not prove effectual for the cure of that which it might have preven…
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