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Proverbs 7:4-5 (Listen)

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

and call insight your intimate friend,

5 to keep you from lthe forbidden1 woman,

from lthe adulteress2 with her smooth words.

[1] 7:5 Hebrew strange
[2] 7:5 Hebrew the foreign woman

21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;

with gher smooth talk she compels him.

28 A lying tongue hates its victims,

and a flattering mouth works ruin.

23 Whoever prebukes a man will afterward find more favor

than qhe who flatters with his tongue.

5 iA man who flatters his neighbor

spreads ja net for his feet.

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