A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but a companion of prostitutes destroys wealth.
Proverbs 5:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 and strangers take their fill of your wealth, and your labors go to the house of an alien, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; And thy labours be in the house of a stranger; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Lest strangers [and false teachings] take their fill of your strength and wealth and your labors go to the house of an alien [from God]– American Standard Version (1901) Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien, Common English Bible Otherwise, strangers will sap your strength, and your hard work will end up in a foreigner’s house. Catholic Public Domain Version Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house, |
A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but a companion of prostitutes destroys wealth.
Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.
and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.
He will accept no compensation and will refuse a bribe no matter how great.
Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, but he does not know it.
But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’