Proverbs 5:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ and strangers take their fill of your wealth, and your labors go to the house of an alien,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; And thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ 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)

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Otherwise, strangers will sap your strength, and your hard work will end up in a foreigner’s house.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,

Proverbs 5:10 Cross References

Proverbs 29:3

A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but a companion of prostitutes destroys wealth.

Proverbs 31:3

Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.

Proverbs 5:11

and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,

Proverbs 5:9

lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,

Proverbs 6:26

for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.

Proverbs 6:35

He will accept no compensation and will refuse a bribe no matter how great.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, but he does not know it.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’