Proverbs 5:10

World English Bible (2000)

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:35 : 35 He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
  • Prov 31:3 : 3 Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
  • Hos 7:9 : 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.
  • Luke 15:30 : 30 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'

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    2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

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  • Isa 61:5
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    5 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

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    9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

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    13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

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  • Job 15:19
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    19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

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    11 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

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    11 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

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    17 and [lest] you say in your heart, "My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth."

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