Albert Barnes Commentary Proverbs 5:10

"Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien," — Proverbs 5:10 (ASV)

Strangers - The whole gang of those into whose hands the slave of lust yields himself. The words are significant as showing that the older punishment of death (Deuteronomy 22:21; Ezekiel 16:38; John 8:5) was not always inflicted, and that the detected adulterer was exposed rather to indefinite extortion. Besides loss of purity and peace, the sin, in all its forms, brings poverty.