Teks -- Proverbs 6:26 (NET)

6:26 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.

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JFB: Pro 6:26

The supplied words give a better sense than the old version: "The price of a whore is a piece of bread."

JFB: Pro 6:26 - adulteress

(Compare Margin), which the parallel and context (Pro 6:29-35) sustain. Of similar results of this sin, compare Pro 5:9-12.

JFB: Pro 6:26 - will hunt

Alluding to the snares spread by harlots (compare Pro 7:6-8).

JFB: Pro 6:26 - precious life

More valuable than all else.

Clarke: Pro 6:26 - By means of a whorish woman

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.

TSK: Pro 6:26 - by // a piece // the adulteress

by : Pro 5:10, Pro 29:3, Pro 29:8; Luk 15:13-15, Luk 15:30

a piece : 1Sa 2:36

the adulteress : Heb. the woman of a man, or, a man’ s wife, hunt. Gen 39:14; Eze 13:8

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Poole: Pro 6:26 - To a piece of bread

To a piece of bread to extreme poverty, so as to want and be forced to beg his bread. Hunt for the precious life ; to take away a man’ s life; either by consuming his body and spirits, and so shortening his days; or more directly and strictly, when she hath any great provocation to it, or any prospect of considerable advantage by it. Or, for the precious soul , which she corrupteth and destroyeth. But I prefer the former sense.

Haydock: Pro 6:26 - Woman

Woman. Who is married, exposes her lover to the danger of death. She chooses the most accomplished men, while the harlot receives the first comer. (Calmet)

Gill: Pro 6:26 - 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

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread,.... To be glad of one, and to beg for one, for the least morsel; it is expressive of the extreme poverty and want which harlots bring men to, who strip them of all their substance, and then send them going to get their bread as they can; thus the prodigal, having spent his substance with harlots, was so reduced as to desire the husks which swine ate, Luk 15:13; so spiritual fornication or idolatry leaves men without bread for their souls, brings them into spiritual poverty, and even to desperation and death;

and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life; or "soul" ⁿ; not content with his precious substance, his jewels, his gold and silver; having stripped him of his goods and livelihood, though some think that is here intended; she lays snares for him, and draws him into those evils which bring him into the hands of her husband, who avenges himself by slaying the adulterer; or into the hands of the civil magistrate, by whom this sin of adultery was punished with death; nay, is the occasion of the ruin of his precious and immortal soul to all eternity: the precious souls of men are part of the wares of antichrist, Rev 18:13.