26 For (A)the price of a prostitute reduces one to a loaf of bread,
And [a]an adulteress (B)hunts for a precious life.

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  1. Proverbs 6:26 Lit a man’s wife

26 For a prostitute will bring you to poverty,[a]
    but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.

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  1. 6:26 Hebrew to a loaf of bread.

26 (A)Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes [a](B)delight in my ways.
27 For a prostitute is a (C)deep pit,
And a [b](D)strange woman is a narrow well.
28 Certainly she (E)lurks as a robber,
And increases the treacherous among mankind.

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  1. Proverbs 23:26 Another reading is observe
  2. Proverbs 23:27 Lit foreign

26 O my son, give me your heart.
    May your eyes take delight in following my ways.
27 A prostitute is a dangerous trap;
    a promiscuous woman is as dangerous as falling into a narrow well.
28 She hides and waits like a robber,
    eager to make more men unfaithful.

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