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 tongue of a wayward woman.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:24 LXX reads from a married woman

23 For this command is a lamp,
    this teaching is a light,(A)
and correction and instruction
    are the way to life,(B)
24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(C)

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26 For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[a]
but the wife of another man[b] goes after a precious life.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:26 Or On account of a prostitute, one is left with only a loaf of bread
  2. 6:26 Lit but a wife of a man

26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
    but another man’s wife preys on your very life.(A)

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