Proverbs 6:26 - English Standard Version 2016

²⁶ for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress stalks and snares [as with a hook] the precious life [of a man].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

Common English Bible

²⁶ for a prostitute costs a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts for a man’s very life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.

Proverbs 6:26 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Genesis 39:14

she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.

Genesis 39:7

And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”

Proverbs 23:28

She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.

Proverbs 29:3

He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Proverbs 29:8

Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,

Proverbs 5:9

lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Ezekiel 13:18

and say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive?

Ezekiel 13:8

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord God.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

1 Samuel 2:36

And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests’ places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”