Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others
and your years to someone cruel;
10 strangers will drain your resources,
and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.

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lest you lose your honor to others
    and your dignity[a] to one who is cruel,
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth
    and your toil enrich the house of another.(A)

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  1. Proverbs 5:9 Or years

26 For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[a]
but an adulteress[b] goes after a precious life.(A)

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  1. Proverbs 6:26 Or On account of a prostitute, [one is left with] only a loaf of bread
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Lit but a wife of a man

26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
    but another man’s wife preys on your very life.(A)

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13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered(A) his estate in foolish living.(B)

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13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth(A) in wild living.

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30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets[a] with prostitutes,(A) you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

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  1. Luke 15:30 Lit livelihood, or living

30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property(A) with prostitutes(B) comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

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