KJV King James Version
For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
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Proverbs 6:26
For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
WEB World English Bible
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
ASV American Standard Version
For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 6
23 For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כִּ֤יH3588 · kiforבְעַד־H1157 · be.adabout/through/forאִשָּׁ֥הH802 · ish.shahwomanזוֹנָ֗הH2181 · za.nahto fornicateעַֽד־H5704 · adtillכִּכַּ֫רH3603 · kik.karPlain (of Jericho)לָ֥חֶםH3899 · le.chemfoodוְאֵ֥שֶׁתH802 · ish.shahwomanאִ֑ישׁH376 · ishmanנֶ֖פֶשׁH5315 · ne.pheshsoulיְקָרָ֣הH3368 · ya.qarpreciousתָצֽוּד׃ פH6679 · tsudto hunt
Cross-references
Luke 15:30But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.Proverbs 29:3Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth [his] substance.1 Samuel 2:36And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left in thine house shall come [and] crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.Genesis 39:14That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:Proverbs 29:8Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise [men] turn away wrath.Proverbs 5:10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;Luke 15:13-15And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.Ezekiel 13:8Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I [am] against you, saith the Lord GOD.Ezekiel 13:18And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the [women] that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive [that come] unto you?Proverbs 7:23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
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