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For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
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My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke,
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by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.
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For the Lord detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence.
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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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who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,
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who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.
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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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Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
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Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
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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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People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
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Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
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Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away.
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He took his purse filled with money and will not be home till full moon.”
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till an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life.
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“The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old;
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when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
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Then I was constantly at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,
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rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.
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Proverbs of Solomon
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
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A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.
