Text -- Proverbs 5:10 (NET)

5:10 lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 5:10

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.