Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers devour ¹  your strength, ²  and your labor ³  benefit ⁴  another man’s house.

biblegateway Pro 5:10

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

biblegateway Pro 5:10

And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;

biblegateway Pro 5:10

Strangers will obtain your wealth, and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.

biblegateway Pro 5:10

Why should you allow strangers to take advantage of you? Why be exploited by those who care nothing for you?

SABDAweb Pro 5:10

And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

bibleoremus Pro 5:10

and strangers will take their fill of your wealth, and your labors will go to the house of an alien;

biblegateway Pro 5:10

Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

biblegateway Pro 5:10

lest strangers devour ¹  your strength, ²  and your labor ³  benefit ⁴  another man’s house.

¹ tn Or “are sated, satisfied.”

² tn 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.

³ tn “labor, painful toil.”

⁴ tn The term “benefit” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.