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May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
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Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
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keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
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For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.
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So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
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For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
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My husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
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A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.
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He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.
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A foolish child is a father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.
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Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
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Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
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Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.
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for an adulterous woman is a deep pit, and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
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Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
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A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;
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a contemptible woman who gets married, and a servant who displaces her mistress.
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Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character
A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.
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Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.
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Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
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Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
