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22 When you walk, they will guide you;
    when you lie down, they will watch over you;
    when you awaken, they will instruct you.
23 For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light,[a]
    and the corrections of discipline point the way to life,
24 to preserve you from an immoral woman,
    from the seductive tongue of an adulteress.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:23 Lamp . . . light: similar to the theme of the psalmist: “[The word of God] is a lamp for my feet and a light to my path” (Ps 119:105; see also Ps 19:9).