or strangers will benefit from your strength and you will have to work hard in a pagan’s house.
A person who loves wisdom makes his father happy, but one who pays prostitutes wastes his wealth.
Don’t give your strength to women or your power to those who ruin kings.
Then you will groan when your end comes, when your body and flesh are consumed. You will say,
Either you will surrender your reputation to others and ⌞the rest of⌟ your years to some cruel person,
A prostitute’s price is ⌞only⌟ a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts for ⌞your⌟ life itself.
No amount of money will change his mind. The largest bribe will not satisfy him.
Foreigners are using up your strength, but you don’t realize it. You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you don’t realize it.
But this son of yours spent your money on prostitutes, and when he came home, you killed the fattened calf for him.’