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Keep a strict watch over a disobedient daughter, or else, if she finds you off guard, she will take advantage of it.
As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.
If your daughter is determined to have her own way, keep a close watch on her. If you don't, she'll take advantage of any chance she gets.
Keep a strict watch over an unruly wife, lest, finding an opportunity, she use it;
Keep a strict watch over a headstrong wife, or else, when she senses an opportunity, she will seize her chance.
Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, or else, when she finds liberty, she will make use of it.
Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, or else, when she finds liberty, she will make use of it.
Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, or else, when she finds liberty, she will make use of it.
Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, or else, when she finds liberty, she will make use of it.
Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, lest, when she finds liberty, she use it to her hurt.
Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, lest, when she finds liberty, she use it to her hurt.
Make thou firm the keeping in (or of) a daughter not turning away herself; lest she mis-use herself, if she findeth (an) occasion. [In a daughter not turning away herself fasten ward; lest, occasion found, she mis-use herself.]
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