Proverbs 6:26
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
In context
24 to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
26 For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
27 Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
Proverbs 6:26 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
- DBY Darby Translation
- 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.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.