Proverbs 5:10

NETBible

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

NIV ©

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

NASB ©

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

NLT ©

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

MSG ©

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

BBE ©

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

NRSV ©

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

NKJV ©

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

KJV
Lest strangers
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be filled
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with thy wealth
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and thy labours
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[be] in the house
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of a stranger
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{thy wealth: Heb. thy strength}
NASB ©
And strangers
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will be filled
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with your strength
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And your hard-earned
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goods
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will go
to the house
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of an alien
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;
LXXM
ina
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CONJ
mh
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ADV
plhsywsin {V-APS-3P} allotrioi
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A-NPM
shv
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A-GSF
iscuov
<2479> 
N-GSF
oi
<3588> 
T-NPM
de
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PRT
soi
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P-DS
ponoi
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N-NPM
eiv
<1519> 
PREP
oikouv
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N-APM
allotriwn
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A-GPM
eiselywsin
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V-AAS-3P
NET [draft] ITL
lest
<06435>
strangers
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devour
<07646>
your strength
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, and your labor
<06089>
benefit another man’s
<05237>
house
<01004>
.
HEBREW
yrkn
<05237>
tybb
<01004>
Kybuew
<06089>
Kxk
<03581>
Myrz
<02114>
webvy
<07646>
Np (5:10)
<06435>
NETBible

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

NET Notes

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.