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or you will give your honour to others,
    and your years to the merciless,
10 and strangers will take their fill of your wealth,
    and your labours will go to the house of an alien;
11 and at the end of your life you will groan,
    when your flesh and body are consumed,

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

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  1. Proverbs 5:9 Or years