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Proverbs 5:10

Proverbs 5:10 is verse 10 of Proverbs chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

Proverbs 5:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

9 lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

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

11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

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.

Luke 15:30
But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

Proverbs 31:3
Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.