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Proverbs 5:9-11
Living Bible
Proverbs 5:9-11
Living Bible
9 lest you fall to her temptation and lose your honor, and give the remainder of your life to the cruel and merciless;[a] 10 lest strangers obtain your wealth, and you become a slave of foreigners. 11 Lest afterwards you groan in anguish and in shame when syphilis[b] consumes your body,
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- Proverbs 5:9 and give the remainder of your life to the cruel and merciless. Perhaps the reference is to blackmail or to fear of vengeance from the wronged husband.
- Proverbs 5:11 syphilis, literally, “disease.”
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