Proverbs 6:26
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
Note Literally a crust of bread
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.
Note the adulteress: Heb. the woman of a man, or, a man’s wife
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your 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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- by
- Proverbs 5:10; Proverbs 29:3, 8; Luke 15:13–15, 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