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Proverbs 5:10

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5:10 lest strangers devour 1  your strength, 2 

and your labor 3  benefit 4  another man’s house.

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[5:10]  1 tn Or “are sated, satisfied.”

[5:10]  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.

[5:10]  3 tn “labor, painful toil.”

[5:10]  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.



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