Proverbs 5:10
Verse 10 of 23. The 5th of 31 chapters in Proverbs, in Poetry and Wisdom.
6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Proverbs 5:10 in the World English Bible
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.Read Proverbs 5:10 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:10
Those years that should be given to the honour of a gracious God are spent in the service of a cruel sin. [3.] It ruins the estate (v. 10): "Strangers will be filled with thy wealth, which thou art but entrusted with as a steward for thy family; and the fruit of thy labours, which should be provision for thy own house, will be in the house of a stranger, that neither has right to it nor will ever thank…
Read Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:1–14: Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality.
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