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Proverbs 5:10

New International Version

lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.

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A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Do not spend your strength on women, your vigor on those who ruin kings.

At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.

lest you lose your honor to others and your dignity to one who is cruel,

For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.

He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.

Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.

But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’