Proverbs 5:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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wealth. Hebrew strength: put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what is produced by it.

labours. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for what is produced by it.

a stranger. a foreigner. Hebrew. nakar. Not the same word as in verses: Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 5:17. See note above and on Proverbs 2:16.

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Proverbs 5:10

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