lest you lose your honor to others
    and your dignity[a] to one who is cruel,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:9 Or years

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

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Lest you give your [a]honor to others,
And your years to the cruel one;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:9 vigor

22 All at once he followed her
    like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer[a] stepping into a noose[b](A)

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  1. Proverbs 7:22 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew fool
  2. Proverbs 7:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

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22 Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or [a]as a fool to the correction of the [b]stocks,

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  1. Proverbs 7:22 LXX, Syr., Tg. as a dog to bonds; Vg. as a lamb . . . to bonds
  2. Proverbs 7:22 shackles

27 Her house is a highway to the grave,
    leading down to the chambers of death.(A)

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27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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27 (A)Her house is the way to [a]hell,
Descending to the chambers of death.

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  1. Proverbs 7:27 Or Sheol

     11 to prostitution;(A)
old wine(B) and new wine
    take away their understanding.(C)

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11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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The Idolatry of Israel

11 “Harlotry, wine, and new wine (A)enslave the heart.

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