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.
27 Can a man carry (G)fire next to his (H)chest
    and his clothes not be burned?
28 Or can one (I)walk on hot coals
    and his feet not be scorched?
29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
    none who touches her (J)will go unpunished.

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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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