22 (A)When you walk, they[a] will lead you;
    (B)when you lie down, they will (C)watch over you;
    and when you awake, they will talk with you.
23 For the commandment is (D)a lamp and the teaching a light,
    and the (E)reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24 to preserve you from the evil woman,[b]
    from the smooth tongue of (F)the adulteress.[c]
25 (G)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her (H)eyelashes;
26 for (I)the price of a prostitute is only (J)a loaf of bread,[d]
    but a married woman[e] (K)hunts down a precious life.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:22 Hebrew it; three times in this verse
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
  3. Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman
  4. Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
  5. Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife

22 When you walk, they will guide you;
    when you sleep, they will watch over you;
    when you awake, they will speak to you.
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)

25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
    or let her captivate you with her eyes.

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

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