lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.
He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
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