lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;
Aliens devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.
Give not your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.
He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!’
lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;
and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.
He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but one who keeps company with harlots squanders his substance.