23 For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,(A)
and corrective discipline is the way to life.(B)
24 They will protect you from an evil woman,[a]
from the flattering[b] tongue of a stranger.(C)
25 Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty(D)
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.(E)
26 For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[c]
but an adulteress[d] goes after a precious life.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 LXX reads from a married woman
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Lit smooth
  3. Proverbs 6:26 Or On account of a prostitute, [one is left with] only a loaf of bread
  4. Proverbs 6:26 Lit but a wife of a man

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