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Proverbs 5:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Strangers will get your money and everything else you have worked for.

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If you love wisdom your parents will be glad, but chasing after bad women will cost you everything.

Don't waste your life chasing after women! This has ruined many kings.

When it's all over, your body will waste away, as you groan

You will lose your self-respect and end up in debt to some cruel person for the rest of your life.

A woman who sells her love can be bought for as little as the price of a meal. But making love to another man's wife will cost you everything.

He won't let you pay him off, no matter what you offer.

They don't seem to realize how weak and feeble they are; their hair has turned grey, while foreigners rule.

This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast.”