5:7 So now, children, 1 listen to me;
do not turn aside from the words I speak. 2
5:10 lest strangers devour 3 your strength, 4
and your labor 5 benefit 6 another man’s house.
1 tn Heb “sons.”
2 tn Heb “the words of my mouth” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV).
3 tn Or “are sated, satisfied.”
4 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.
5 tn “labor, painful toil.”
6 tn The term “benefit” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.