that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a foreigner,
A man who loves wisdom gladdens his father, but one feeding ones doing adultery wastes wealth.
Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that wiping out kings.
and you groan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are used up,
lest you give your vigor to others, and your years to the cruel one;
For through a woman committing adultery, a man comes to the last loaf of bread, and another man’s wife hunts for the precious soul.
He will not lift up the face of every ransom, nor will he consent when you multiply the bribes.
Strangers have eaten up his strength, and he does not know. Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled on him, and he does not know.
But when this son of yours came, the one devouring your living with harlots, you killed the fattened calf for him.