Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours[ be] in the house of a stranger;

恐怕外人满得你的力量，你劳碌得来的，归入外人的家；

免得陌生人满得你的财富，你劳苦所得的归入外邦人的家。

免得陌生人满得你的财富，你劳苦所得的归入外邦人的家。

免得外人吞尽你的财富，你的辛劳所得归给他人。

免得外人饱享你的财物，你劳碌得来的归入别人的家。

免得别人满得你的力量，你的劳苦所得就归入外人的家。

恐怕外人滿得你的力量，你勞碌得來的，歸入外人的家；

免得陌生人滿得你的財富，你勞苦所得的歸入外邦人的家。

免得陌生人滿得你的財富，你勞苦所得的歸入外邦人的家。

免得外人吞盡你的財富，你的辛勞所得歸給他人。

免得外人飽享你的財物，你勞碌得來的歸入別人的家。

免得陌生人飽得你的資財，而你勤勞得來的歸入外人之家；

免得別人滿得你的力量，你的勞苦所得就歸入外人的家。

資財充於外人、辛勞歸於他家、

於是爾之貨財為人所得、爾之物產為人所有、

恐爾之貨財為外人所得、爾劬勞所獲者、在他人之家、

lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.

Strangers will use up all your wealth. Your hard work will make someone else rich.

lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,

Strangers will consume your wealth, and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.

strangers will drain your resources, and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

And strangers will be filled with your strength, And your hard earned possessions will go to the house of a foreigner;

Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,

strangers will drain your resources, and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.

lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth[ it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.