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25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart;
    may she not capture you with her eyelashes.
26 For the price of a woman, a prostitute,[a] is the price of a loaf of bread,
    but the woman belonging to a man[b] hunts precious life.

Warning Against Relations with a Married Woman

27 Can a man carry fire in his lap,
    and his clothes not burn?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:26 Or “whore”
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Literally “the woman of a man”