Proverbs 31:3

Proverbs 31:3 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

3Do not spend your strength on women,

your vigor on those who ruin kings.

3Do not give your strength to women,

Or your ways to that which destroys kings.

3Do not give your [generative] strength to women [neither foreign wives in marriages of alliances, nor concubines],

Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

3Do not spend your strength on women

or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

3Give not thy strength unto women,

Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

3Giue not thy strength vnto women, nor thy wayes, which is to destroy Kings.

3Don’t give your strength to women,

nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

3Don’t waste your strength on women.

Don’t waste it on those who destroy kings.

3Do not chase after women and lose your strength. Women like that have destroyed kings.

3Do not give your strength to women, || And your ways to wiping away of kings.