Many waters cannot quench love,
    neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love
    all the wealth of his (A)house,
    he[a] would be utterly despised.

Final Advice

Others

We have a little sister,
    and she (B)has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
    on the day when she is spoken for?
If she is a wall,
    we will build on her a battlement of silver,
but if she is a door,
    we will enclose her with (C)boards of cedar.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 8:7 Or it

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