English Standard Version

Proverbs 6:24–29

24  to preserve you from the evil woman,5

from the smooth tongue of sthe adulteress.6

25  tDo not desire her beauty in your heart,

and do not let her capture you with her ueyelashes;

26  for vthe price of a prostitute is only wa loaf of bread,7

but a married woman8 xhunts down a precious life.

27  Can a man carry yfire next to his zchest

and his clothes not be burned?

28  Or can one awalk on hot coals

and his feet not be scorched?

29  So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;

none who touches her bwill go unpunished.

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5

Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor

s

See ch. 2:16

6

Hebrew the foreign woman

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v

[ch. 29:3]

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7

Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread

8

Hebrew a man’s wife

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a
b

ch. 16:5

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