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Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”
    Call understanding your relative,
that they may keep you from the strange woman,
    from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
    and call insight your intimate friend,
that they may keep you from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.5 Heb strange woman
  2. 7.5 Heb alien woman

21 With persuasive words, she led him astray.
    With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

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21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
    with her smooth talk she compels him.(A)

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28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts;
    and a flattering mouth works ruin.

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28 A lying tongue hates its victims,
    and a flattering mouth works ruin.(A)

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23 One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor
    than one who flatters with the tongue.

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23 Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor
    than one who flatters with the tongue.(A)

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A man who flatters his neighbor
    spreads a net for his feet.

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Whoever flatters a neighbor
    is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.

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