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Proverbs 5:10
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Proverbs 5:10
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lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
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Proverbs 5:10 in Other Translations
KJV
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Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
ESV
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lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
NLT
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Strangers will consume your wealth, and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
MSG
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Why should you allow strangers to take advantage of you? Why be exploited by those who care nothing for you?
CSB
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strangers will drain your resources, and your earnings will end up in a foreigner's house.
Proverbs 5:10 In-Context
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Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house,
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lest you lose your honor to others and your dignity to one who is cruel,
10
lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
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At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.
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You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!
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Proverbs 29:3
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