Proverbs 31:3

Proverbs 31:3 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

3Do not spend your strength31:3 Or wealth 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 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 31:3 See note Gen 22:24.concubines],

Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

3Do not spend your strength on women

or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

3Don’t waste your strength on women.

Don’t waste it on those who destroy kings.