Proverbs 5:10 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with your strength, And your labours go to the house of a foreigner.

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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,

Proverbs 5:10 Cross References

Proverbs 29:3

He who loves wisdom gladdens his father, But a companion of whores destroys wealth.

Proverbs 31:3

Do not give your strength to women, Nor your ways to wiping away sovereigns.

Proverbs 5:11

Then you shall howl in your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,

Proverbs 5:9

Lest you give your splendour to others, And your years to one who is cruel;

Proverbs 6:26

For because of a whore One is brought to a crust of bread. And an adulteress hunts a precious life.

Proverbs 6:35

He does not regard any ransom, Nor accept your bribe, however great!

Hosea 7:9

“Strangers have devoured his strength, but he does not know it. Grey hairs are also sprinkled on him, and he does not know it.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with whores, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’