Proverbs 6:26
Modern Translations
New International Version
For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man's wife preys on your very life.

New Living Translation
For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.

English Standard Version
for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.

Berean Study Bible
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

New American Standard Bible
For the price of a prostitute reduces one to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for a precious life.

NASB 1995
For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for the precious life.

NASB 1977
For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for the precious life.

Amplified Bible
For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a piece of bread [to be eaten up], And the immoral woman hunts [with a hook] the precious life [of a man].

Christian Standard Bible
For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but an adulteress goes after a precious 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.

Good News Translation
A man can hire a prostitute for the price of a loaf of bread, but adultery will cost him all he has.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A prostitute's price is [only] a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts for [your] life itself.

International Standard Version
because the price of a whore is a loaf of bread, and an adulterous woman stalks a man's precious life.

NET Bible
for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

New King James Version
For by means of a harlot A man is reduced to a crust of bread; And an adulteress will prey upon his precious life.

King James 2000 Bible
For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life.

New Heart English Bible
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

World English Bible
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

American King James Version
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

American Standard Version
For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

A Faithful Version
For by means of a harlot a man is vanquished to a piece of bread; and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Darby Bible Translation
for by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.

English Revised Version
For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

Webster's Bible Translation
For by means of a lewd woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
By an harlot a man is brought to beg his bread, and a woman wyll hunte for the pretious life of man.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
An harlot wil make a ma to begg his bred, but a maried woman wil hunt for ye precious life.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, "" And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.

Young's Literal Translation
For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

Smith's Literal Translation
For by a woman a harlot, even to a round of bread: and a man's wife will hunt the precious soul.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
For the comparison of a woman who is a harlot is like a loaf of bread, and a man's wife hunts the precious soul.

Lamsa Bible
For the appearance of a harlot is tempting like a loaf of bread; and the adulteress hunts for the precious life.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a loaf of bread, But the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the value of a harlot is as much as of one loaf; and a woman hunts for the precious souls of men.
















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