Proverbs 5:10

Foreigners will take your money, and all the good things that you have worked for will ◄end up in their hands/become their possessions►.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

In Context

9If you enter the home of one of them, you will lose your ◄self-respect/good reputation► and that woman’s husband will not act mercifully toward you; he will kill you and take everything that you have acquired during your life!

11And when you are about to die, you will groan with severe pain because diseases that you have gotten from being immoral will be destroying your body.

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Cross References

Proverbs 29:3Those who are eager to become wise cause their parents to be glad; those who spend their time with prostitutes will end up giving all their money to them.

Hosea 7:9Joining with the rulers of foreign nations has caused Israel to be a weak nation, but the Israelis do not realize that. Israel has become like [MET] a gray-haired old man, but the people of Israel do not realize 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 →

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