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26 for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread,[a]
    but an adulteress[b] stalks a man’s very life.

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  1. Proverbs 6:26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Heb a man’s wife

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.

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  1. Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man’s wife.

26 My son, give me your heart,
    and let your eyes observe[a] my ways.
27 For a harlot is a deep pit;
    an adventuress is a narrow well.
28 She lies in wait like a robber
    and increases the faithless among men.

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  1. Proverbs 23:26 Another reading is delight in

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.

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  1. Proverbs 23:26 Another reading is, observe
  2. Proverbs 23:28 Or, as for a prey