lest you give your honor to others
    and your years to the merciless,
10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
    and your (A)labors go to the house of a foreigner,

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26 for (A)the price of a prostitute is only (B)a loaf of bread,[a]
    but a married woman[b] (C)hunts down a precious life.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife

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