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Proverbs 5:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and strangers take their fill of your wealth, and your labors go to the house of an alien,

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A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but a companion of prostitutes destroys wealth.

Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.

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

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

for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.

He will accept no compensation and will refuse a bribe no matter how great.

Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, but he does not know it.

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’