Verse 10
Proverbs 5:10
Bible in Basic English
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And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
Original Language Text
hebrew
פֶּֽן יִשְׂבְּע֣וּ זָרִ֣ים כֹּחֶ֑/ךָ וַ֝/עֲצָבֶ֗י/ךָ בְּ/בֵ֣ית נָכְרִֽי
English Translation
Lest foreigners eat your strength and your labors be in a foreign house.
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Chapter 5 Context
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My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
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So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
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For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
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But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
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Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
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She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
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Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.
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Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
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For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
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And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
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And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
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And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
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I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guidin...
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I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
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Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain...
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Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.
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Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.
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Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
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As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all ti...
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Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arm...
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For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
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The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
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He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the ri...
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