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For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
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Two Sins, Two Destinies
Commentators explain that this verse contrasts two levels of destruction. The first part, involving a harlot, leads to complete financial ruin, reducing a man to begging for 'a piece of bread.' The second part, involving an adulteress, is far more severe, as she 'hunts for the precious life' itself.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The two forms of evil bring, each of them, their own penalty. By the one, a man is brought to such poverty as to beg for a piece of bread …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread To be glad of …
The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy.
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