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10 so that strangers don’t enrich themselves at your expense,[a]
    and your work won’t end up the possession of foreigners.[b]
11 You will cry out in anguish when your end comes,
    when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you will say, “How I hated instruction,[c]
    and my heart rejected correction!

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:10 Lit. don’t satisfy themselves with your strength
  2. Proverbs 5:10 Lit. won’t go into a foreigner’s house
  3. Proverbs 5:12 Or discipline