Keep your way far from her.
Don’t go near the door of her house.(A)
Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others
and your years to someone cruel;
10 strangers will drain your resources,
and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.

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Keep to a path far from her,(A)
    do not go near the door of her house,
lest you lose your honor to others
    and your dignity[a] to one who is cruel,
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth
    and your toil enrich the house of another.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:9 Or years