10 strangers will drain your resources,
and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

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10 lest strangers devour[a] your strength,[b]
and your labor[c] benefit[d] another man’s house.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:10 tn Heb “eat their fill of” or “become sated from” your strength.
  2. 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.
  3. Proverbs 5:10 tn “labor, painful toil.”
  4. 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.