Proverbs 5:10

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;
• 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;
• New Living Translation (NLT)Strangers will consume your wealth, and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.

Context of Proverbs 5:10

8Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house, 9lest you lose your honor to others and your dignity to one who is cruel, lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another. 11At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent. 12You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!

Proverbs 5:10 word by word

פֶּֽן־יִשְׂבְּע֣וּ זָרִ֣ים כֹּחֶ֑ךָ וַ֝עֲצָבֶ֗יךָ בְּבֵ֣ית נָכְרִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Lest strangersזוּרzûr · be a strangerH2114
• be filledשָׂבֵעַώâba‛ ώâbêa‛ · to satisfyH7646
• with thy wealthכֹּחַkôach kôach · strengthH3581
• and thy laboursעֶ֫צֶב‛etseb · toilH6089
• in the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• of a strangerנׇכְרִיnokrîy · foreignH5237

Cross-references for Proverbs 5:10

• Proverbs 6:35He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.
• Hosea 7:9Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.
• Luke 15:30But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
• Proverbs 31:3Do not spend your strength on women, your vigor on those who ruin 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

Topics related to Proverbs 5:10

• Adultery
• Harlot (Prostitute)
• Lasciviousness
• Remorse
• Temptation
• Women
• Young Men

In the dictionaries

• Cord
• Mouth
• Education
• Hezekiah (2)
• Proverbs, the Book of
• Purity
• Wisdom

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