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If you do, you will lose your honor to other people.
    You will give your self-respect to someone who is mean.
10 Strangers will use up all your wealth.
    Your hard work will make someone else rich.
11 At the end of your life you will groan.
    Your skin and your body will be worn out.

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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)
11 At the end of your life you will groan,
    when your flesh and body are spent.

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  1. Proverbs 5:9 Or years