Proverbs 5:22
“His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.”
KJV
Read in Proverbs 5Meaning
The cords metaphor portrays repeated wrongdoing as creating its own bondage.
Read carefully
The warning names the seriousness of self-entanglement; it does not forbid compassion, treatment, accountability, or restoration.