Proverbs 6:24-27

English Standard Version

²⁴to 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;
²⁶for ^(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.
²⁷Can a man carry ^(G)fire next to his ^(H)chest
    and his clothes not be burned?

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Footnotes

Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman
Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife