²⁶ For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,^[a]
but the wife of another man^[b] goes after a precious life.^(A)

¹² Now in the street, now in the squares,^(A)
she lurks at every corner.^(B)

²² He follows her impulsively
like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer bounding toward a trap^[a]
23 until an arrow pierces its^[b] liver,^(A)
like a bird darting into a snare^(B)—
he doesn’t know it will cost him his life.