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Proverbs 5:10
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strangers will drain your resources,and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.
Lest strangers feast on your wealth, And your labors enrich another man's house.
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
Strangers will enjoy your wealth, and what you worked so hard for will go to someone else.
lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.
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];
And strangers will be filled with your strength, And your hard-earned possessions will go to the house of a foreigner;
Lest strangers feast on your wealth, And your labors enrich another man's house.
Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,
Lest strangers be satisfied by your strengthAnd by your painful labor, those in the house of a foreigner;
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
Strangers will get your money and everything else you have worked for.
so strangers won't be filled with your strength and what you worked for go to a foreign house.
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;
People you don't know will take all your wealth. Others will get what you worked for.
Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of strangers;
Yes, strangers will take all your wealth, and what you have worked for will belong to someone else.
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of an alien,
That other men be not fylled with thy goodes, & that thy labours come not in a straunge house.
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,
And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in the house of an alien;
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labors be in the house of a stranger,
That other men be not filled with thy vertues, and that thy labours come not in a straunge house.
lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours come into the houses of strangers;
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength; and thy labours be in the house of an alien;
lest perauenture straungeris be fillid with thi strengthis, and lest thi trauels be in an alien hous;
Or else strangers will be filled with your strength, And your labors [be] in the house of an alien,
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors [be] in the house of a stranger;
Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
Strangers will consume your wealth, and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
Strangers would be filled with your strength, and the fruits of your work would go to a strange house.
and strangers will take their fill of your wealth, and your labors will go to the house of an alien;
Lest strange men, be well fed, by thy strength, and, thy toils, be in the house of the alien.
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man’s house,
Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
strangers: Proverbs 6:35, Hosea 7:9, Luke 15:30
wealth: Heb. strength, Proverbs 31:3
Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:26 - by Proverbs 21:17 - loveth Romans 6:21 - What
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth,.... The adulteress, her husband, children, friends, bawds, and such like persons she is concerned with; these share the wealth of the adulterer, abound with it, and live profusely on it, until he is stripped quite bare and destitute: or, "with thy strength"; :-. Jarchi interprets it of the prophets of Baal, that exact money by their falsehoods; it may well enough be applied to the fornicating merchants of Rome, who wax rich through the abundance of her delicacies and adulteries, Revelation 18:3; persons, strangers indeed to God and Christ, and all true religion;
and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger; that is, wealth gotten by hard labour, with toil and sweat, grief and trouble, as the word used q signifies; and yet, after all, not enjoyed by himself and his lawful wife and children, but by the strange woman and her accomplices, and spent in maintaining whores, bawds, and bastards; hence the fable of the Harpies eating and spoiling the victuals of Phineus, who were no other than harlots that consumed his substance r: and sometimes they are carried into a strange country, and possessed by foreigners. These are the wretched effects and miserable consequences of adultery, and therefore by all means to be shunned and avoided. Jarchi understands it of the house of idolatry, or an idol's temple; and everyone knows what vast riches are brought into the temples or churches of the Papists by idolatry.
q עצ××× "dolores tui", Montanus, Cocceius, Michaelis. r Heraclitus de Incredibil. c. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Strangers - 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.
