Add parallel Print Page Options

26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
    The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 6.26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread

20 “So is the way of an adulterous woman:
    She eats and wipes her mouth,
    and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

Read full chapter

20 This is the way of an adulteress:
    she eats and wipes her mouth
    and says, “I have done no wrong.”(A)

Read full chapter