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Proverbs 5:10
10And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned wealth will go to the house of a foreigner [who does not know God];
Proverbs 5:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
- New International Version (NIV)lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
- English Standard Version (ESV)lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
Context of Proverbs 5:10
8Let your way [in life] be far from her, And do not go near the door of her house [avoid even being near the places of temptation], 9Or you will give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one, And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned wealth will go to the house of a foreigner [who does not know God]; 11And you will groan when your life is ending, When your flesh and your body are consumed; 12And you say, “How I hated instruction and discipline, And my heart despised correction and reproof!
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פֶּֽן־יִשְׂבְּע֣וּ זָרִ֣ים כֹּחֶ֑ךָ וַ֝עֲצָבֶ֗יךָ בְּבֵ֣ית נָכְרִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 5:10
- Proverbs 6:35He will not accept any ransom [offered to buy him off from demanding full punishment]; Nor will he be satisfied though you offer him many gifts (bribes).
- Hosea 7:9Strangers have devoured his strength, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know.
- Luke 15:30but when this [other] son of yours arrived, who has devoured your estate with immoral women, you slaughtered that fattened calf for him!’
- Proverbs 31:3Do not give your [generative] strength to women [neither foreign wives in marriages of alliances, nor concubines], Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
Commentaries on Proverbs 5:10
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Strangers - The whole gang of those into whose hands the slave of lust yields himself. The words are significant as showing that the older punishment of death Deuteronomy 22:21; Ezekiel 16:38; John 8:5 was not always inflicted, and that the detected adulterer was exposed rather to indefinite extortion. Besides loss of purity and peace, the sin, in all its forms, brings poverty.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-10An illicit relationship may seem tempting, but it eventually causes shame. If the woman is a prostitute, the young man will have to pay her, losing income. If the woman is another man's wife, he might have to pay her husband (see Leviticus 20:10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. wealth--literally, "strength," or the result of it. labours--the fruit of thy painful exertions (Psa 127:2). There may be a reference to slavery, a commuted punishment for death due the adulterer (De 22:22).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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