Proverbs 6:26
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
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Proverbs 5:10
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Proverbs 29:3, 8
A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth. . . .

Luke 15:13-15, 30
After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living. . . .

a piece

1 Samuel 2:36
And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, "Please appoint me to some priestly office, so that I may eat a piece of bread."'"

the adulteress

Genesis 39:14
she called her household servants. "Look, " she said, "this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.

Ezekiel 13:8
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for the precious life.

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.

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

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
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.
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