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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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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Proverbs 6:26

18th Century

Theologian

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

John Gill

John Gill

On Proverbs 6:26

17th Century

Pastor

For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece
of bread
To be glad of …

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Proverbs 6:20–35

17th Century

Minister

The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy.

When we consider how much this…