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

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26 For a prostitute will bring you to poverty,[a]
    but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:26 Hebrew to a loaf of bread.

Saying 18

26 My son,(A) give me your heart
    and let your eyes delight in my ways,(B)
27 for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,(C)
    and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28 Like a bandit she lies in wait(D)
    and multiplies the unfaithful among men.

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26 O my son, give me your heart.
    May your eyes take delight in following my ways.
27 A prostitute is a dangerous trap;
    a promiscuous woman is as dangerous as falling into a narrow well.
28 She hides and waits like a robber,
    eager to make more men unfaithful.

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