Proverbs 5:10
10 lest strangers devour ▼
▼tn Heb “eat their fill of” or “become sated from” your strength.
your strength ▼▼tn The word כֹּחַ (koakh, “strength”) refers to what laborious toil would produce (so a metonymy of cause). Everything that this person worked for could become the property for others to enjoy.
and your labor ▼
▼tn “labor, painful toil.”
benefit ▼▼tn The term “benefit” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.
another man’s house.
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