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Proverbs 5:9–10

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5:9lest you give your vigor20 to others

and your years to a cruel person,

5:10lest strangers devour21 your strength,22

and your labor23 benefit24 another man’s house.

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Footnotes

  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.
  2. 21 Or “are sated, satisfied.”
  3. 22 The word כֹּחַ (coakh, “strength”) refers to what laborious toil would produce (so a metonymy of cause). Everything that this person worked for could become the property for others to enjoy.
  4. 23 “labor, painful toil.”
  5. 24 The term “benefit” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

lest you give your honor to others

and your years to the merciless,

lest strangers take their fill of your strength,

and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

lest 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.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others

and your years to someone cruel;

strangers will drain your resources,

and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

If you do, you will lose your honor

and will lose to merciless people all you have achieved.

Strangers will consume your wealth,

and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

lest you give your honor to the others,

and your years to the merciless,

lest strangers take their fill of your strength,

and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

Lest thou give thine honour unto others,

And thy years unto the cruel:

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth;

And thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

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