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Say to [skillful and godly] wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And regard understanding and intelligent insight as your intimate friends;
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That they may keep you from the immoral woman,
From the foreigner [who does not observe God’s laws and] who flatters with her [smooth] words.

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A lying tongue hates those it wounds and crushes,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.

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He who [appropriately] reprimands a [wise] man will afterward find more favor
Than he who flatters with the tongue.

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A man who flatters his neighbor [with smooth words intending to do harm]
Is spreading a net for his own feet.