24 to preserve you from the evil woman,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of (A)the adulteress.[b]
25 (B)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her (C)eyelashes;
26 for (D)the price of a prostitute is only (E)a loaf of bread,[c]
    but a married woman[d] (F)hunts down a precious life.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman
  3. Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
  4. Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife

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