25 (A)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her capture you with her (B)eyelids.
26 For (C)on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread,
And [a]an adulteress (D)hunts for the precious life.
27 Can a man [b]take fire in his bosom
And his clothes not be burned?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:26 Lit a man’s wife
  2. Proverbs 6:27 Lit snatch up