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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?

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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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