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Love wisdom like a sister;
    make insight a beloved member of your family.
Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman,
    from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.

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Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your intimate friend;
In order to keep you from the strange woman,
From the foreign woman who [a]flatters with her words.

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  1. Proverbs 7:5 Lit is smooth

21 So she seduced him with her pretty speech
    and enticed him with her flattery.

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21 With her abundant [a]persuasions she entices him;
With her (A)flattering lips she drives him to herself.

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  1. Proverbs 7:21 Lit learning

28 A lying tongue hates its victims,
    and flattering words cause ruin.

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28 A lying tongue hates [a]those it crushes,
And a (A)flattering mouth works ruin.

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  1. Proverbs 26:28 Lit its crushed ones

23 In the end, people appreciate honest criticism
    far more than flattery.

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23 He who (A)reproves a man will afterward find more favor
Than he who (B)flatters with the tongue.

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To flatter friends
    is to lay a trap for their feet.

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A man who (A)flatters his neighbor
Is spreading a net for his steps.

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