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Proverbs 5:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

strangers will drain your resources, and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

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Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with grey, but he does not notice.

Don’t spend your energy on women or your efforts on those who destroy kings.

He will not be appeased by anything or be persuaded by lavish bribes.

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.”

Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel;

At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed,

For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but one who consorts with prostitutes destroys his wealth.