Proverbs 5:10 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

BSB

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ASV

Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,

KJV

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth,.... The adulteress, her husband, children, friends, bawds, and such like persons she is concerned with; these share the wealth of the adulterer, abound with it, and live profusely on it, until he is stripped quite bare and destitute: or, "with thy strength"; See Gill on Pro 5:

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Strangers - The whole gang of those into whose hands the slave of lust yields himself. The words are significant as showing that the older punishment of death Deu 22:21; Eze 16:38; Joh 8:5 was not always inflicted, and that the detected adulterer was exposed rather to indefinite extortion. Besides loss of purity and peace, the sin, in all its forms, brings poverty.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
פֶּֽן־	pen-	lest	H6435 →
יִשְׂבְּע֣וּ	yis.be.'U	they should be satisfied	H7646 →
זָרִ֣ים	za.Rim	strangers	H2114 →
כֹּחֶ֑ךָ	ko.Che.kha	strength your	H3581 →
וַ֝עֲצָבֶ֗יךָ	va.'a.tza.Vei.kha	and labor your	H6089 →
בְּבֵ֣ית	be.Veit	[be] in [the] house of	H1004 →
נָכְרִֽי׃	na.khe.Ri	a foreigner	H5237 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 31:3
Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 17:17
  He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.
- Nehemiah 13:26
  Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all…
- Proverbs 7:26–27
  For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
- Proverbs 5:9–11
  lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
- 1 Kings 11:1
  King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
Through
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
leads to
- Hosea 8:7
  For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
Through
Luke 15:30
But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
leads to
- Proverbs 29:3
  A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
- Luke 15:12–13
  The younger son said to him, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Proverbs

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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