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lest strangers be filled with thy wealth and thy labors be in the house of a stranger,
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,
And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned wealth will go to the house of a foreigner [who does not know God];
Lest strangers [and false teachings] take their fill of your strength and wealth and your labors go to the house of an alien [from God]—
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
strangers will drain your resources, and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.
Otherwise, strangers will sap your strength, and your hard work will end up in a foreigner’s house.
so strangers won’t be filled with your strength and what you worked for go to a foreign house.
Strangers will get your money and everything else you have worked for.
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,
People you don’t know will take all your wealth. Others will get what you worked for.
Strangers will take all your money. The good things that you have worked for will belong to someone else.
If you do, your work will satisfy strangers, and the results of your labor will end up in another man’s house.
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labours go to the house of a foreigner,
Strangers will ·enjoy your wealth [or sap your strength], and what you worked so hard for will ·go to someone else [L end up in the house of a foreigner].
Lest the stranger should be filled with thy strength, and thy labors be in the house of a stranger,
or strangers will benefit from your strength and you will have to work hard in a pagan’s house.
Yes, strangers will take all your wealth, and what you have worked for will belong to someone else.
strangers will drain your resources, and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.
Strangers will enjoy your wealth. And what you worked so hard for will go to someone else.
so that strangers don’t enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won’t end up the possession of foreigners.
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours be in the house of a stranger,
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Lest strangers be satisfied by your strength And by your painful labor, those in the house of a foreigner;
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
lest strangers obtain your wealth, and you become a slave of foreigners.
So, my friend, listen closely; don’t treat my words casually. Keep your distance from such a woman; absolutely stay out of her neighborhood. You don’t want to squander your wonderful life, to waste your precious life among the hardhearted. Why should you allow strangers to take advantage of you? Why be exploited by those who care nothing for you? You don’t want to end your life full of regrets, nothing but sin and bones, Saying, “Oh, why didn’t I do what they told me? Why did I reject a disciplined life? Why didn’t I listen to my mentors, or take my teachers seriously? My life is ruined! I haven’t one blessed thing to show for my life!”
lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors go to the house of a stranger;
or strangers will benefit from your strength and you will have to work hard in a pagan’s house.
Lest outsiders take their fill of your wealth, and your hard-won earnings go to another’s house;
And strangers will be filled with your strength, And your hard-earned possessions will go to the house of a foreigner;
And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;
lest strangers grow prosperous on your wealth and your arduous toil enrich another man’s house.
Strangers will enjoy your wealth, and what you worked so hard for will go to someone else.
lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.
Strangers will use up all your wealth. Your hard work will make someone else rich.
lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
Strangers would be filled with your strength, and the fruits of your work would go to a strange house.
Strangers will consume your wealth, and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
and strangers will take their fill of your wealth, and your labours will go to the house of an alien;
and strangers will take their fill of your wealth, and your labours will go to the house of an alien;
and strangers will take their fill of your wealth, and your labors will go to the house of an alien;
and strangers take their fill of your wealth, and your labors go to the house of an alien,
Lest zarim (strangers) be filled with thy koach; and thy toilings be in the bais nochri;
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;
lest strangers feast on your strength, your labors go to a foreigner’s house.
If you do, strangers will help themselves to your wealth, and everything you have worked hard to acquire will end up in someone else’s hands.
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.
lest peradventure strangers be filled with thy strengths, and lest (the rewards of) thy travails be in an alien’s house; (lest perhaps strangers take all thy wealth, and the rewards of all thy efforts be in someone else’s house;)
Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
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