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26 because the price of a whore is a loaf of bread,
    and an adulterous woman stalks a man’s precious life.

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26 Give me your heart, my son,
    and keep your eyes fixed on my ways,
27 because a prostitute is a deep pit,
    and the adulterous[a] woman a narrow well.
28 Surely she lies in wait like a bandit,
    increasing those who are faithless among mankind.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:27 Lit. foreign