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Proverbs 5:9

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5:9lest you give your vigor20 to others

and your years to a cruel person,

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  1. 20 The term הוֹד (hod, “vigor; splendor; majesty”) in this context means the best time of one’s life (cf. “your best strength”), the full manly vigor that will be wasted with licentiousness. Here it is paralleled by “years,” which refers to the best years of that vigor, the prime of life. Life would be ruined by living this way, or the revenge of the woman’s husband would cut it short.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

lest you give your honor to others

and your years to the merciless,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

lest you lose your honor to others

and your dignity to one who is cruel,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others

and your years to someone cruel;

NLTNew Living Translation

If you do, you will lose your honor

and will lose to merciless people all you have achieved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

lest you give your honor to the others,

and your years to the merciless,

KJV 1900King James Version

Lest thou give thine honour unto others,

And thy years unto the cruel: