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

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lest you lose your honor to others
    and your dignity[a] to one who is cruel,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:9 Or years

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

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10 lest strangers feast on your wealth
    and your toil enrich the house of another.(A)

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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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Proverbs of Solomon

10 The proverbs(A) of Solomon:(B)

A wise son brings joy to his father,(C)
    but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

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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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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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