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22 When you walk,[a] she[b] will lead you,
    When you lie down,[c] she will watch over you,
    and when you awake, she will converse with you.
23 For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light,
    and the way of life[d] is the reproof of discipline,
24 in order to preserve you from an evil woman,[e]
    from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:22 Literally “In your walking”
  2. Proverbs 6:22 That is, “commandment” and “instruction”
  3. Proverbs 6:22 Literally “In your lying down”
  4. Proverbs 6:23 Hebrew “lives”
  5. Proverbs 6:24 Or “wife”
  6. Proverbs 6:24 Literally “a foreign woman”