Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

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KJV

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

ASV

Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,

YLT

Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

DBT

lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;

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Lest strangers be filled with your strength, etc. Lest you assist the deeds of demons, if you lend either the ingenuity of your mind or the strengths of your body to perform crimes; and you multiply the household of strangers, that is, the number of …

Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735patristic

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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"; See Gill on Pro 5:

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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 Deu 22:21; Eze 16:38; Joh 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.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

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Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
Proverbs 6:35
He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
Proverbs 31:3
Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
Proverbs 6:26
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
Romans 6:21
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
Luke 15:30
But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

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About this book

King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Proverbs 31:3
Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 17:17
  He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.
- Nehemiah 13:26
  Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all…
- Proverbs 7:26–27
  For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
- Proverbs 5:9–11
  lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
- 1 Kings 11:1
  King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
Through
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
leads to
- Hosea 8:7
  For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
Through
Luke 15:30
But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
leads to
- Proverbs 29:3
  A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
- Luke 15:12–13
  The younger son said to him, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.

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