Proverbs 5:10
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New International Version (©1984)
lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich another man's house.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
or strangers will benefit from your strength and you will have to work hard in a pagan's house.

King James Bible
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

American King James Version
Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

American Standard Version
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,

Bible in Basic English
And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,

Darby Bible Translation
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil come into the house of a stranger;

English Revised Version
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength; and thy labours be in the house of an alien;

Webster's Bible Translation
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;

World English Bible
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

Young's Literal Translation
Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

Geneva Study Bible

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy {f} labours be in the house of a stranger;

(f) The goods gotten by your travel.

Wesley's Notes

5:10 Strangers - Not only the strange women themselves, but others who are in league with them. Labors - Wealth gotten by thy labours.

King James Translators' Notes

thy wealth: Heb. thy strength

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10. wealth-literally, "strength," or the result of it.

labours-the fruit of thy painful exertions (Ps 127:2). There may be a reference to slavery, a commuted punishment for death due the adulterer (De 22:22).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:1-14 Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand idolatry, false doctrine, which tends to lead astray men's minds and manners; but the direct view is to warn against seventh-commandment sins. Often these have been, and still are, Satan's method of drawing men from the worship of God into false religion. Consider how fatal the consequences; how bitter the fruit! Take it any way, it wounds. It leads to the torments of hell. The direct tendency of this sin is to the destruction of body and soul. We must carefully avoid every thing which may be a step towards it. Those who would be kept from harm, must keep out of harm's way. If we thrust ourselves into temptation we mock God when we pray, Lead us not into temptation. How many mischiefs attend this sin! It blasts the reputation; it wastes time; it ruins the estate; it is destructive to health; it will fill the mind with horror. Though thou art merry now, yet sooner or later it will bring sorrow. The convinced sinner reproaches himself, and makes no excuse for his folly. By the frequent acts of sin, the habits of it become rooted and confirmed. By a miracle of mercy true repentance may prevent the dreadful consequences of such sins; but this is not often; far more die as they have lived. What can express the case of the self-ruined sinner in the eternal world, enduring the remorse of his conscience!


Proverbs 5:9 Or you will give your vigor to others And your years to the cruel one;
Proverbs 5:11 And you groan at your final end, When your flesh and your body are consumed; (NASB ©1995)

Alien Enrich Feast Fill Filled Fruit Fruits Full Goods House Others Strange Stranger Strangers Strength Toil Wealth Work


Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

strangers 6:35 Ho 7:9 Lu 15:30

wealth 31:3

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