Proverbs 6:26
Holman Christian Standard Bible
26 For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[a]
but an adulteress[b] goes after a precious life.(A)
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:26 Or On account of a prostitute, [one is left with] only a loaf of bread
- Proverbs 6:26 Lit but a wife of a man
Proverbs 6:26
New International Version
26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
but another man’s wife preys on your very life.(A)
Proverbs 7:12
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Proverbs 7:12
New International Version
12 now in the street, now in the squares,
at every corner she lurks.)(A)
Proverbs 7:22-23
Holman Christian Standard Bible
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.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:22 Text emended; MT reads like a shackle to the discipline of a fool; Hb obscure
- Proverbs 7:23 Or his
Proverbs 7:22-23
New International Version
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:22 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew fool
- Proverbs 7:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
Holman Christian Standard Bible
26 And I find more bitter than death(A) the woman who is a trap,(B) her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
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Ecclesiastes 7:26
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