Proverbs 5:10
Christian Standard Bible
10 strangers will drain your resources,
and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.
Proverbs 5:10
New English Translation
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:10 tn Heb “eat their fill of” or “become sated from” your strength.
- Proverbs 5:10 tn The word כֹּחַ (koakh, “strength”) refers to what laborious toil would produce (so a metonymy of cause). Everything that this person worked for could become the property for others to enjoy.
- Proverbs 5:10 tn “labor, painful toil.”
- Proverbs 5:10 tn The term “benefit” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.
Proverbs 5:10
New International Version
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth
and your toil enrich the house of another.(A)
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