Proverbs 31:3 - Compare All Versions
Proverbs 31:3 NIV (New International Version)
Do not spend your strength on women, your vigor on those who ruin kings.
Proverbs 31:3 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.
Proverbs 31:3 NLT (New Living Translation)
do not waste your strength on women, on those who ruin kings.
Proverbs 31:3 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
Don’t spend your energy on women or your efforts on those who destroy kings.
Proverbs 31:3 KJV (King James Version)
Give not thy strength unto women, Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Proverbs 31:3 NKJV (New King James Version)
Do not give your strength to women, Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
Proverbs 31:2-3 MSG (The Message)
“Oh, son of mine, what can you be thinking of! Child whom I bore! The son I dedicated to God! Don’t dilute your strength on fortune-hunting women, promiscuous women who shipwreck leaders.
Proverbs 31:3 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
Do not give your strength to women, Or your ways to that which destroys kings.
Proverbs 31:3 AMP (Amplified Bible)
Do not give your [generative] strength to women [neither foreign wives in marriages of alliances, nor concubines], Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
Proverbs 31:3 NET (New English Translation)
Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.