Proverbs 5:14
New International Version
And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God’s people.”

New Living Translation
I have come to the brink of utter ruin, and now I must face public disgrace.”

English Standard Version
I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”

Berean Standard Bible
I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

King James Bible
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

New King James Version
I was on the verge of total ruin, In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

New American Standard Bible
“I was almost in total ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

NASB 1995
“I was almost in utter ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

NASB 1977
“I was almost in utter ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

Legacy Standard Bible
I was almost in utter ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

Amplified Bible
“I was almost in total ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

Christian Standard Bible
I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community.”

American Standard Version
I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I have been in almost every evil in the assembly and in the congregation.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

Contemporary English Version
and now I am disgraced in front of everyone."

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.

English Revised Version
I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I almost reached total ruin in the assembly and in the congregation."

Good News Translation
And suddenly I found myself publicly disgraced."

International Standard Version
Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation."

JPS Tanakh 1917
I was well nigh in all evil In the midst of the congregation and assembly.'

Literal Standard Version
As a little thing I have been all evil, | In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.”

Majority Standard Bible
I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

New American Bible
I am all but ruined, in the midst of the public assembly!”

NET Bible
I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!"

New Revised Standard Version
Now I am at the point of utter ruin in the public assembly.”

New Heart English Bible
I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly."

Webster's Bible Translation
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, among the gathered assembly.”

Young's Literal Translation
As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

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Context
Avoiding Immorality
13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors. 14I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.” 15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.…

Cross References
Proverbs 5:13
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Proverbs 5:15
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.


Treasury of Scripture

I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.

Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Numbers 25:1-6
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab…

Hosea 4:11-14
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart…

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(14) I was almost in all evil . . .--Rather, I had almost fallen into every sin: I was so infatuated that I might have committed any sin, and that openly before all. Or, I might have been visited with extremest punishment at the hands of the congregation, death by stoning (Leviticus 20:10, John 8:5). The offender's eyes are now opened, and he shudders at the thought of the still greater troubles into which he might, in his infatuation, have fallen.

Verse 14. - I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly; i.e. such was my shamelessness that there was scarcely any wickedness which I did not commit, unrestrained even by the presence of the congregation and assembly. The fact which the ruined youth laments is the extent and audacity of his sins. It is not that he accuses himself of hypocrisy in religion (Delitzsch), but he adds another clement in his career of vice. He has disregarded the warnings and reproofs of his teachers and friends; but more, the presence of the congregation of God's people, a silent but not a less impressive protest, had no restraining effect upon him. The words, "the congregation and assembly" (Hebrew, kahal v'edah), seem to be used to heighten the conception, rather than to express two distinct and separate ideas, since we find them both used interchangeably to designate the congregation of the Israelites. The radical conception of kahal ("congregation") is the same as that of the LXX. ἐκκλήσια and Vulgate ecclesia, viz. the congregation looked upon from the point of its being called together, kahal being derived from kahal, which in hiph. is equivalent to "to call together," while that of edah is the congregation looked at from the point of its having assembled edah being derived from yaad, in niph. equivalent to "to come together." The latter will therefore stand for any assembly of people specially convened or coming together for some definite object, like the LXX. συναγώγη and the Vulgate synagoga. The term edah is, however, used in a technical sense as signifying the seventy elders, or senators, who judged the people (see Numbers 25:7; Numbers 35:12). Rabbi Salomon so explains haedah as "the congregation," in Joshua 20:6 and Numbers 27:21. Other explanations, however, have been given of these words. Zockler takes kahal as the convened council of elders acting as judges (Deuteronomy 33:4, 5), and edah as the concourse (coetus) of the people executing the condemning sentence (Numbers 15:15; cf. Psalm 7:7), and renders, "Well nigh had I fallen into utter destruction in the midst of the assembly and the congregation." Fleischer, Vatablus, and Bayne take much the same view, looking upon ra ("evil," Authorized Version) as "punishment," i.e. the evil which follows as a consequence of sin - a usage supported by 2 Samuel 16:18; Exodus 5:19; 1 Chronicles 7:23; Psalm 10:6 - rather than as evil per se, i.e. that which is morally bad, as in Exodus 32:22. Aben Ezra considers that the perfect is used for the future; "In a little time I shall be involved in all evil;" i.e. punishment, which is looked forward to prospectively. For "almost" (ki-mat, equivalent to "within a little," "almost," "nearly"), see Genesis 26:10; Psalm 73:2; Psalm 119:87.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I am
הָיִ֣יתִי (hā·yî·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

on the brink
כִּ֭מְעַט (kim·‘aṭ)
Preposition-k | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 4592: A little, fewness, a few

of utter
בְכָל־ (ḇə·ḵāl-)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

ruin
רָ֑ע (rā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

in the midst
בְּת֖וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

of the whole assembly.”
קָהָ֣ל (qā·hāl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6951: Assembly, convocation, congregation


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