Proverbs 5:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁰and strangers take their fill of your wealth,
and your labors go to the house of an alien,

Proverbs 5:10

New English Translation

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

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.

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