Proverbs 6:25-32
25 aDo not desire her beauty in your heart,and do not let her capture you with her beyelashes;
26for cthe price of a prostitute is only da loaf of bread, ▼
▼Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
but a married woman ▼
▼Hebrew a man’s wife
ghunts down a precious life.27Can a man carry hfire next to his ichest
and his clothes not be burned?
28Or can one jwalk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
29So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
none who touches her kwill go unpunished.
30People do not despise a thief if he steals
to lsatisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
31but mif he is caught, he will pay nsevenfold;
he will give all the goods of his house.
32He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
Proverbs 7:24-27
24 And onow, O sons, listen to me,and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
25Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;
do not stray into her paths,
26for many a victim has she laid low,
and all her slain are pa mighty throng.
27Her house is qthe way to Sheol,
going down to the chambers of death.
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