Proverbs 5:10
Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
In Context
9Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:3The man who loves wisdom rejoices his father. But whoever nurtures promiscuous women will lose his substance.
Hosea 7:9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he did not know it. And grey hairs also have spread across him, and he is ignorant of it.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7… Read the whole commentary →