Bible verse

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Proverbs 5:10 · BSB

Proverbs 5:10 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 5.

6 She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.

7 So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

8 Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

9 lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

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

12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

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Proverbs 5:10 in other translations

KJV

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;

ASV

Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,

ERV

Lest strangers be filled with thy strength; and thy labours be in the house of an alien;

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