⁹ Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others
and your years to someone cruel;
¹⁰ strangers will drain your resources,
and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

²⁶ For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,^[a]
but the wife of another man^[b] goes after a precious life.^(A)