Holy Scripture

Proverbs 5:10

A church father on this verse
“Lest strangers be filled with your strength, etc. Lest you assist the deeds of demons, if you lend either the ingenuity of your mind or the strengths of your body to perform crimes; and you multiply the household of strangers, that is, the number of the lost, by adding yourself. And beautifully he said: Let your labor…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs

Source: Septuagint

Original

10Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors come into the houses of strangers;

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In context

8Remove thy way far from her; Draw not near to the doors of her house:

9Lest thou give away thy life to others, And thy substance to the merciless:

— Proverbs 5:10 —

11And thou repent at last, When the flesh of thy body is consumed,

12And thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart avoided reproofs!

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