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Proverbs 7:5

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So may she guard you from the woman who is an outsider, and from the stranger who sweetens her words.

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So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,

The mouth of a foreign woman is a deep pit; the Lord was angry with him who will fall into it.

Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?

For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.

So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider.

She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips.

Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call prudence your friend.

For I gaze from the window of my house, through the lattice,