Proverbs 5:10
And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
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- Prov 6:35 : 35 He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.
- Prov 31:3 : 3 Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.
- Hos 7:9 : 9 Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.
- Luke 15:30 : 30 But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.
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10 Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
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11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
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17 Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
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