Proverbs 5:23

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

He shall die without instruction - without the disciplinary instruction (so the Hebrew) which is the privilege of the children of God (Proverbs 3:11), and therefore without the saving "wisdom" and "knowledge" which are its blessed fruits (; ). This is the just retribution in kind for having "hated instruction" (). God punishes sinner by giving them their own way.

And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. The same Hebrew verb as in Proverbs 5:19, was translated "be ravished," margin, err. His erratic love, which ravished him, shall be judicially made his punishment by becoming everlasting error ().