Proverbs 5:10
“Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;”
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
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Cross-References
“He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.”
“Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.”
“Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.”
“For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.”
“He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.”