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so that you don’t give your honor to others,
    and waste your best years;[a]
10 so that strangers don’t enrich themselves at your expense,[b]
    and your work won’t end up the possession of foreigners.[c]
11 You will cry out in anguish when your end comes,
    when your flesh and body are consumed,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:9 Lit. and your years to the cruel
  2. Proverbs 5:10 Lit. don’t satisfy themselves with your strength
  3. Proverbs 5:10 Lit. won’t go into a foreigner’s house