25 (A)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her (B)eyelashes;
26 for (C)the price of a prostitute is only (D)a loaf of bread,[a]
    but a married woman[b] (E)hunts down a precious life.
27 Can a man carry (F)fire next to his (G)chest
    and his clothes not be burned?

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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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