Proverbs 5:9

NETBible	lest you give your vigor¹ to others and your years to a cruel person,
NIV © biblegateway Pro 5:9	lest you give your best strength to others and your years to one who is cruel,
NASB © biblegateway Pro 5:9	Or you will give your vigor to others And your years to the cruel one;
NLT © biblegateway Pro 5:9	If you do, you will lose your honor and hand over to merciless people everything you have achieved in life.
MSG © biblegateway Pro 5:9	You don't want to squander your wonderful life, to waste your precious life among the hardhearted.
BBE © SABDAweb Pro 5:9	For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 5:9	or you will give your honor to others, and your years to the merciless,
NKJV © biblegateway Pro 5:9	Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one ;
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KJV	Lest thou give <05414> (8799) thine honour <01935> unto others <0312>_, and thy years <08141> unto the cruel <0394>_:
NASB © biblegateway Pro 5:9	Or <06435> you will give <05414> your vigor <01935> to others <0312> And your years <08141> to the cruel <0394> one <0394> ;
LXXM	ina <2443> CONJ mh <3165> ADV proh {V-PMS-2S} alloiv <243> D-DPM zwhn <2222> N-ASF sou <4771> P-GS kai <2532> CONJ son <4674> A-ASM bion <979> N-ASM anelehmosin <415> A-DPM
NET [draft] ITL	lest <06435> you give <05414> your vigor <01935> to others <0312> and your years <08141> to a cruel <0394> person,
HEBREW	yrzkal <0394> Kytnsw <08141> Kdwh <01935> Myrxal <0312> Ntt <05414> Np (5:9) <06435>


NETBible	lest you give your vigor¹ to others and your years to a cruel person,
NET Notes	¹sn The term הוֹד (hod, “vigor; splendor; majesty”) in this context means the best time of one’s life (cf. NIV “your best strength”), the full manly vigor that will be wasted with licentiousness. Here it is paralleled by “years,” which refers to the best years of that vigor, the prime of life. Life would be ruined by living this way, or the revenge of the woman’s husband would cut it short.