Parallel Verses
Webster
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.
New American Standard Bible
And
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.
Holman Bible
but an adulteress
International Standard Version
because the price of a whore is a loaf of bread, and an adulterous woman stalks a man's precious life.
A Conservative Version
For the price of a harlot is as much as a piece of bread, but the adulteress hunts 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.
Amplified
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].
Bible in Basic English
For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
Darby 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.
Julia Smith Translation
For by a woman a harlot, even to a round of bread: and a man's wife will hunt the precious soul.
King James 2000
For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For [the] price of a woman, a prostitute, [is the] price of a loaf of bread, but the {woman belonging to a man} hunts precious life.
Modern King James verseion
For by means of a harlot a man comes to a piece of bread; and another man's wife will hunt for the precious life.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A harlot will make a man to beg his bread, but a married woman will hunt for the 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.
New Heart English Bible
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
The Emphasized Bible
Because, for the sake of an impure woman, a man may be brought even to a cake of bread, - and, a man's wife, for a precious soul, may hunt!
World English Bible
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
Youngs Literal Translation
For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
Themes
Adultery » Adulterers and adulteresses
Whoredom » The reward for whoredom
Topics
Interlinear
Zanah
Lechem
Yaqar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:26
Prayers for Proverbs 6:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Commandment And Instruction As Guardians
25 Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26 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. 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 29:3
He that loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
1 Samuel 2:36
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thy house, shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priest's offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
Proverbs 5:10
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;
Genesis 39:14
That she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, See, he hath brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us: he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
Proverbs 7:23
Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Proverbs 29:8
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Ezekiel 13:8
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 13:18
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all arm-holes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come to you?
Luke 15:13-15
And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Luke 15:30
But as soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.