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lest you give your honor to others
    and your years to the merciless,

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10 and strangers take their fill of your wealth,
    and your labors go to the house of an alien,

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Wise Sayings of Solomon

10 The proverbs of Solomon.

A wise child makes a glad father,
    but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.(A)

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13 A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant region, and there he squandered his wealth in dissolute living.

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