Pro 5:10 | NET2full | STEP | lest strangers devour your strength and your labor benefit another man’s house .

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.