Proverbs 6:26

New American Standard Bible

²⁶For ^(A)the price of a prostitute reduces one to a loaf of bread,
And ^[a]an adulteress ^(B)hunts for a precious life.

Proverbs 6:26

English Standard Version

²⁶for ^(A)the price of a prostitute is only ^(B)a loaf of bread,^[a]
but a married woman^[b] ^(C)hunts down a precious life.

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

²⁰This is the way of an ^(A)adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
And says, “I have done no wrong.”

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

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