New Revised Standard Version
for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s very life.

Contemporary English Version
A woman who sells her love can be bought for as little as the price of a meal. But making love to another man's wife will cost you everything.

New American Bible
For the price of a harlot may be scarcely a loaf of bread, But a married woman is a trap for your precious life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?

Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?

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Proverbs 5:10 And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;

Proverbs 29:3,8 A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance. . . .

Luke 15:13-15,30 And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously. . . .

a piece

1 Samuel 2:36 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall remain in thy house shall come that he may be prayed for, and shall offer a piece of silver, and a roll of bread, and shall say: Put me, I beseech thee, to somewhat of the priestly office, that I may eat a morsel of bread.

the adulteress

Genesis 39:14 She called to her the men of her house, and said to them: See, he hath brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us: he came in to me, to lie with me; and when I cried out,

Ezekiel 13:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have spoken vain things, and have seen lies: therefore behold I come against you, saith the Lord God.