Proverbs 5:22-23 - Exposition

The fearful end of the adulterer . From the universal statement of God's omniscience and the Divine judgment, the teacher passes to the fate of the profligate. His end is inevitable ruin and misery. The deep moral lesson conveyed is that sin carries with it its own Nemesis. Adultery and impurity, like all sin of which they are forms, are retributive. The career of the adulterer is a career begun, continued, and ended in folly (comp. Proverbs 1:31 , Proverbs 1:32 ; Proverbs 2:5 ; Proverbs 18:7 ; Proverbs 29:6 ; and Psalms 9:15 ).