New King James Version
Proverbs 5:10
10Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
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 Living Translation (NLT)Strangers will consume your wealth, and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
Context of Proverbs 5:10
8Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house, 9Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one; Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner; 11And you mourn at last, When your flesh and your body are consumed, 12And say: “How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!
Read all of Proverbs 5Proverbs 5:10 word by word
פֶּֽן־יִשְׂבְּע֣וּ זָרִ֣ים כֹּחֶ֑ךָ וַ֝עֲצָבֶ֗יךָ בְּבֵ֣ית נָכְרִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 5:10
- Proverbs 6:35He will accept no recompense, Nor will he be appeased though you give many gifts.
- Hosea 7:9Aliens have devoured his strength, But he does not know it; Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, Yet he does not know it.
- Luke 15:30But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’
- Proverbs 31:3Do not give your strength to women, 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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