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Proverbs 5:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Lest outsiders take their fill of your wealth, and your hard-won earnings go to another’s house;

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Whoever loves wisdom gives joy to his father, but whoever consorts with harlots squanders his wealth.

Do not give your vigor to women, or your strength to those who ruin kings.

And you groan in the end, when your flesh and your body are consumed;

Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to a merciless one;

For the price of a harlot may be scarcely a loaf of bread, But a married woman is a trap for your precious life.

He will not consider any restitution, nor be satisfied by your many bribes.

Strangers have consumed his strength, but he does not know it; Gray hairs are strewn on his head, but he takes no notice of it.

But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’