Do not spend your strength[a] on women,
    your vigor on those who ruin kings.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:3 Or wealth

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

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Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.(A)

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And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

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