Verse List for PROV 6:26

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OET (OET-RV) because the price of a prostitute might be as cheap as a loaf of bread, ⇔ but another man’s wife might cost you your precious life.

OET-LV If/because the_price a _woman a _prostitute is_to a _round _loaf _of bread and_the_wife _of a _man a _life precious she _hunts.

ULT For the price of a prostitute woman, is as a loaf of bread, ⇔ but the wife of a man hunts a precious life.

UST Do not do so because, although having sex with a prostitute may only cost you a cheap meal, ⇔  doing so with an adulterous married woman will cause you to die.

BSB & MSB For the levy of the prostitute is poverty,[fn] ⇔  and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. ⇔  The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

NET 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.

LSV For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread,
And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.

FBV You can buy a prostitute for the price of a loaf of bread, but adultery with another man's wife can cost you your life.

T4T Do not forget that you can hire a prostitute for only a loaf of bread, ⇔  but if you sleep with another man’s wife, ◄it may cost you/you may lose► your life.

LEB • For the price of a woman, a prostitute,[fn] is the price of a loaf of bread,
• but the woman belonging to a man[fn] hunts precious life.

BBE For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

Moff for the harlot is only out to earn a meal, ⇔  but the adulteress preys upon your very life.

JPS For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a loaf of bread, but the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

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

DRA For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.

YLT For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

Drby 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.

RV For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
(For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to apiece of bread: and the adulteress hunteth/hunts for the precious life.)

SLT For by a woman a harlot, even to a round of bread: and a man’s wife will hunt the precious soul.

Wbstr 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.

KJB-1769 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.[fn]
(For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to apiece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.)

KJB-1611 [fn]For by meanes of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteresse will hunt for the precious life.
(For by means of a whorish woman, a man is brought to apiece of bread: and the adulteresse will hunt for the precious life.)

Bshps By an harlot a man is brought to beg his bread, and a woman wyll hunte for the pretious life of man.
(By an harlot a man is brought to beg his bread, and a woman will hunte for the precious life of man.)

Gnva 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.
(For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsel of bread, and a woman will hunt for the precious life of a man.)

Cvdl An harlot wil make a ma to begg his bred, but a maried woman wil hunt for ye precious life.
(An harlot will make a man to beg his bred, but a married woman will hunt for ye/you_all precious life.)

Wycl For the prijs of an hoore is vnnethe of o loof; but a womman takith the preciouse soule of a man.
(For the price of an hoar/grey is unnethe of o loaf; but a woman taketh/takes the precious soul of a man.)

Luth Denn eine Hure bringet einen ums Brot; aber ein Eheweib fähet das edle Leben.
(Because a/one whore(n) brings/gets a about bread; but a Eheweib drive the noble life.)

ClVg pretium enim scorti vix est unius panis, mulier autem viri pretiosam animam capit.
(price/ransom/value because scorti barely it_is of_one bread/food, woman however men preciousm the_soul takes.)

UHB כִּ֤י בְעַד־אִשָּׁ֥ה זוֹנָ֗ה עַֽד־כִּכַּ֫ר לָ֥חֶם וְ⁠אֵ֥שֶׁת אִ֑ישׁ נֶ֖פֶשׁ יְקָרָ֣ה תָצֽוּד׃פ ‡

BrLXX Τιμὴ γὰρ πόρνης ὅση καὶ ἑνὸς ἄρτου, γυνὴ δὲ ἀνδρῶν τιμίας ψυχὰς ἀγρεύει.

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