Proverbs 5:9

New English Translation

lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:26

Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

Proverbs 31:3

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 6:26

for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.