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24 to preserve you from the evil woman,
    from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
26 for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread,[a]
    but an adulteress[b] stalks a man’s very life.
27 Can a man carry fire in his bosom
    and his clothes not be burned?
28 Or can one walk upon hot coals
    and his feet not be scorched?
29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
    none who touches her will go unpunished.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Heb a man’s wife

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