23 For the commandment is (A)a lamp and the teaching a light,
    and the (B)reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24 to preserve you from the evil woman,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of (C)the adulteress.[b]
25 (D)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her (E)eyelashes;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman

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