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Proverbs 5:10

Modern English Version

lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,

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He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but he who keeps company with prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to those who destroy kings.

and you mourn at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel,

for the price of a prostitute leaves a man with a loaf of bread, and an adulteress preys upon his precious life.

He will accept no compensation; he will not rest content though you offer many gifts.

Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it. Gray hairs are here and there upon him, but he does not know it.

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed the fattened calf for him.’