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Proverbs 31:2-4
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2 What are you doing, my son![a]
    what are you doing, son of my womb;
    what are you doing, son of my vows!
3 Do not give your vigor to women,
    or your strength[b] to those who ruin kings.
4 It is not for kings, Lemuel,
    not for kings to drink wine;
    strong drink is not for princes,

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Footnotes

  1. 31:2 My son: in the Septuagint, “my son, my firstborn.”
  2. 31:3 The Hebrew word here translated “strength” normally means “ways,” but the context and a cognate language support “authority” or “strength” here.
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