New Living Translation

Proverbs 5:9-13 New Living Translation (NLT)

9. If you do, you will lose your honorand will lose to merciless people all you have achieved.

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

11. In the end you will groan in anguishwhen disease consumes your body.

12. You will say, “How I hated discipline!If only I had not ignored all the warnings!

13. Oh, why didn’t I listen to my teachers?Why didn’t I pay attention to my instructors?