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Proverbs 5:10
10Strangers will take all your money. The good things that you have worked for will belong to someone else.
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
8Keep far away from a woman like that! Do not even go near the door of her house. 9If you go with her, you will lose your honour. A cruel person will rob you of the best years of your life. Strangers will take all your money. The good things that you have worked for will belong to someone else. 11At the end of your life, you will weep with pain. Your body will be sick and weak. 12You will say, ‘I should have listened when people warned me that I was doing bad things.
Read all of Proverbs 5Proverbs 5:10 word by word
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 money or bribe to pay the debt, even if it is a lot of money.
- Hosea 7:9Foreign people have taken away Israel's strength. But the Israelites do not realize what is happening! They have become like an old man with grey hair. But they do not realize how weak they are.
- Luke 15:30But now this other son of yours has returned. He has wasted all the money that you gave to him. He has spent it on prostitutes. But you have even killed the fat young cow for him.”
- Proverbs 31:3Do not chase after women and lose your strength. Women like that have destroyed 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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