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Selected Verse: Proverbs 6:26 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 6:26 |
Strong Concordance |
For by means of [01157] a whorish [02181] woman [0802] a man is brought to a piece [03603] of bread [03899]: and the adulteress [0802] [0376] will hunt [06679] for the precious [03368] life [05315]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The supplied words give a better sense than the old version: "The price of a whore is a piece of bread."
adulteress--(Compare Margin), which the parallel and context (Pro 6:29-35) sustain. Of similar results of this sin, compare Pro 5:9-12.
will hunt--alluding to the snares spread by harlots (compare Pro 7:6-8).
precious life--more valuable than all else. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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" (compare Sa1 2:36): by the other and more deadly sin he incurs a peril which may affect his life. The second clause is very abrupt and emphatic in the original; "but as for a man's wife; she hunts for the precious life." |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| By means of a whorish woman - In following lewd women, a man is soon reduced to poverty and disease. The Septuagint gives this a strange turn: timh gar pornhv, osh kai enov artou. "For the price or hire of a whore is about one loaf." So many were they in the land, that they hired themselves out for a bare subsistence. The Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic, give the same sense. The old MS. Bible has it thus: The price forsothe of a strumpet is unneth oon lof: the woman forsothe taketh the precious liif of a mam. The sense of which is, and probably the sense of the Hebrew too, While the man hires the whore for a single loaf of bread; the woman thus hired taketh his precious life. She extracts his energy, and poisons his constitution. In the first clause אשה זונה ishshah zonah is plainly a prostitute; but should we render אשת esheth, in the second clause, an adulteress? I think not. The versions in general join אשת איש esheth ish, together, which, thus connected, signify no more than the wife of a man; and out of this we have made adulteress, and Coverdale a married woman. I do not think that the Old MS. Bible gives a good sense; and it requires a good deal of paraphrase to extract the common meaning from the text. Though the following verses seem to countenance the common interpretation, yet they may contain a complete sense of themselves; but, taken in either way, the sense is good, though the construction is a little violent. |
6 For at the window [02474] of my house [01004] I looked [08259] through my casement [0822],
7 And beheld [07200] among the simple ones [06612], I discerned [0995] among the youths [01121], a young man [05288] void [02638] of understanding [03820],
8 Passing through [05674] the street [07784] near [0681] her corner [06434]; and he went [06805] the way [01870] to her house [01004],
9 Lest thou give [05414] thine honour [01935] unto others [0312], and thy years [08141] unto the cruel [0394]:
10 Lest strangers [02114] be filled [07646] with thy wealth [03581]; and thy labours [06089] be in the house [01004] of a stranger [05237];
11 And thou mourn [05098] at the last [0319], when thy flesh [01320] and thy body [07607] are consumed [03615],
12 And say [0559], How have I hated [08130] instruction [04148], and my heart [03820] despised [05006] reproof [08433];
29 So he that goeth in [0935] to his neighbour's [07453] wife [0802]; whosoever toucheth [05060] her shall not be innocent [05352].
30 Men do not despise [0936] a thief [01590], if he steal [01589] to satisfy [04390] his soul [05315] when he is hungry [07456];
31 But if he be found [04672], he shall restore [07999] sevenfold [07659]; he shall give [05414] all the substance [01952] of his house [01004].
32 But whoso committeth adultery [05003] with a woman [0802] lacketh [02638] understanding [03820]: he that doeth [06213] it destroyeth [07843] his own soul [05315].
33 A wound [05061] and dishonour [07036] shall he get [04672]; and his reproach [02781] shall not be wiped away [04229].
34 For jealousy [07068] is the rage [02534] of a man [01397]: therefore he will not spare [02550] in the day [03117] of vengeance [05359].
35 He will not regard [05375] [06440] any ransom [03724]; neither will he rest content [014], though thou givest many [07235] gifts [07810].
36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left [03498] in thine house [01004] shall come [0935] and crouch [07812] to him for a piece [095] of silver [03701] and a morsel [03603] of bread [03899], and shall say [0559], Put [05596] me, I pray thee, into one [0259] of the priests' offices [03550], that I may eat [0398] a piece [06595] of bread [03899].