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Proverbs 5:10

New Century Version

Strangers will enjoy your wealth, and what you worked so hard for will go to someone else.

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Those who love wisdom make their parents happy, but friends of prostitutes waste their money.

Don’t waste your strength on women or your time on those who ruin kings.

You will groan at the end of your life when your health is gone.

or you will give your riches to others, and the best years of your life will be given to someone cruel.

A prostitute will treat you like a loaf of bread, and a woman who takes part in adultery may cost you your life.

He will accept no payment for the wrong; he will take no amount of money.

Foreign nations have eaten up his strength, but he doesn’t know it. Israel is weak and feeble, like an old man, but he doesn’t know it.

But your other son, who wasted all your money on prostitutes, comes home, and you kill the fat calf for him!’