Proverbs 6:26
Authorized (King James) Version
26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread:
and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Proverbs 6:26
American Standard Version
26 For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread;
And [a]the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man’s wife.
Proverbs 23:26-28
Authorized (King James) Version
26 My son, give me thine heart,
and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch;
and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey,
and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Proverbs 23:26-28
American Standard Version
26 My son, give me thy heart;
And let thine eyes [a]delight in my ways.
27 For a harlot is a deep ditch;
And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
28 Yea, she lieth in wait [b]as a robber,
And increaseth the treacherous among men.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:26 Another reading is, observe
- Proverbs 23:28 Or, as for a prey
KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.
Public Domain (Why are modern Bible translations copyrighted?)