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.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:9 Or years

26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
    but another man’s wife preys on your very life.(A)

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13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth(A) in wild living.

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30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property(A) with prostitutes(B) comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

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