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Proverbs 6:26
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For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
A prostitute will treat you like a loaf of bread, and a woman who takes part in adultery may cost you your life.
for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a piece of bread [to be eaten up], And the immoral woman hunts [with a hook] the precious life [of a man].
For the price of a prostitute reduces one to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for a precious life.
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.
For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread,And an adulteress hunts for the precious life.
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
The price of a whore is a loaf of bread, but the adulteress is hunting for a precious life.
for by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.
A prostitute might cost a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man could cost you your life.
For the appearance of a harlot is tempting like a loaf of bread; and the adulteress hunts for the precious life.
For the price of a woman, a prostitute, is the price of a loaf of bread, but the woman belonging to a man hunts precious life.
For on account of a woman, a harlot, a man comes to the last loaf of bread, and another man's wife hunts for the precious soul.
An harlot wil make a ma to begg his bred, but a maried woman wil hunt for ye precious life.
For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a loaf of bread, but the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
For by meanes of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteresse will hunt for the precious life.
By an harlot [a man is brought] to beg his bread, and a woman wyll hunte for the pretious life of man.
For the value of a harlot is as much as of one loaf; and a woman hunts for the precious souls of men.
For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
For the prijs of an hoore is vnnethe of o loof; but a womman takith the preciouse soule of a man.
For on account of a prostitute [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunts for the precious life.
For by means of a lewd woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
For by means of a harlotA man is reduced to a crust of bread;And an adulteress [fn] will prey upon his precious life.
For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping with another man's wife will cost you your life.
For because of a woman who sells the use of her body, one is brought down to a loaf of bread. A sinful woman hunts to take a man's very life.
for a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man's very life.
Because, for the sake of an impure woman, a man may be brought even to a cake of bread, - and, a man's wife, for a precious soul, may hunt!
For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.
for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.
For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for the precious life.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
by: Proverbs 5:10, Proverbs 29:3, Proverbs 29:8, Luke 15:13-15, Luke 15:30
a piece: 1 Samuel 2:36
the adulteress: Heb. the woman of a man, or, a man's wife, hunt. Genesis 39:14, Ezekiel 13:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 39:10 - as she spake Judges 14:15 - Entice Judges 16:6 - General 2 Kings 1:14 - let my life Proverbs 2:18 - General Proverbs 9:18 - the dead
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread,.... To be glad of one, and to beg for one, for the least morsel; it is expressive of the extreme poverty and want which harlots bring men to, who strip them of all their substance, and then send them going to get their bread as they can; thus the prodigal, having spent his substance with harlots, was so reduced as to desire the husks which swine ate, Luke 15:13; so spiritual fornication or idolatry leaves men without bread for their souls, brings them into spiritual poverty, and even to desperation and death;
and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life; or "soul" n; not content with his precious substance, his jewels, his gold and silver; having stripped him of his goods and livelihood, though some think that is here intended; she lays snares for him, and draws him into those evils which bring him into the hands of her husband, who avenges himself by slaying the adulterer; or into the hands of the civil magistrate, by whom this sin of adultery was punished with death; nay, is the occasion of the ruin of his precious and immortal soul to all eternity: the precious souls of men are part of the wares of antichrist, Revelation 18:13.
n × ×¤×© "animam", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The two forms of evil bring, each of them, their own penalty. By the one a man is brought to such poverty as to beg for âa piece of breadâ (compare 1 Samuel 2:36): by the other and more deadly sin he incurs a peril which may affect his life. The second clause is very abrupt and emphatic in the original; âbut as for a manâs wife; she hunts for the precious life.â
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 6:26. By means of a whorish woman — In following lewd women, a man is soon reduced to poverty and disease. The Septuagint gives this a strange turn: Ïιμη Î³Î±Ï ÏοÏνηÏ, οÏη και ÎµÎ½Î¿Ï Î±ÏÏÎ¿Ï . "For the price or hire of a whore is about one loaf." So many were they in the land, that they hired themselves out for a bare subsistence. The Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic, give the same sense. The old MS. Bible has it thus: The price forsothe of a strumpet is unneth oon lof: the woman forsothe taketh the precious liif of a man. The sense of which is, and probably the sense of the Hebrew too, While the man hires the whore for a single loaf of bread; the woman thus hired taketh his precious life. She extracts his energy, and poisons his constitution. In the first clause ××©× ××× × ishshah zonah is plainly a prostitute; but should we render ×שת esheth, in the second clause, an adulteress? I think not. The versions in general join ×שת ××ש esheth ish, together, which, thus connected, signify no more than the wife of a man; and out of this we have made adulteress, and Coverdale a married woman. I do not think that the Old MS. Bible gives a good sense; and it requires a good deal of paraphrase to extract the common meaning from the text. Though the following verses seem to countenance the common interpretation, yet they may contain a complete sense of themselves; but, taken in either way, the sense is good, though the construction is a little violent.
