Proverbs 5:10

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Proverbs 5:10 tn Heb “eat their fill of” or “become sated from” your strength.
2. Proverbs 5:10 tn The word כֹּחַ (koakh, “strength”) refers to what laborious toil would produce (so a metonymy of cause). Everything that this person worked for could become the property for others to enjoy.
3. Proverbs 5:10 tn “labor, painful toil.”
4. Proverbs 5:10 tn The term “benefit” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.