Proverbs 5:9-11

Living Bible

⁹lest you fall to her temptation and lose your honor, and give the remainder of your life to the cruel and merciless;^[a] ¹⁰lest strangers obtain your wealth, and you become a slave of foreigners. ¹¹Lest afterwards you groan in anguish and in shame when syphilis^[b] consumes your body,

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Footnotes

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.”

Proverbs 5:9-11

New International Version

⁹lest you lose your honor to others
    and your dignity^[a] to one who is cruel,
¹⁰lest strangers feast on your wealth
    and your toil enrich the house of another.^(A)
¹¹At the end of your life you will groan,
    when your flesh and body are spent.