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1 My son, guard my words and conceal my precepts within you. 2 Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil of your eye. 3 Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call prudence your friend. 5 So may she guard you from the woman who is an outsider, and from the stranger who sweetens her words. 6 For I gaze from the window of my house, through the lattice, 7 and I see little ones. I consider a frenzied youth, 8 who crosses the street at the corner and close to the way of that house. 9 He steps into shadows, as day becomes evening, into the darkness and gloom of the night. 10 And behold, a woman meets him, dressed like a harlot, prepared to captivate souls: chattering and rambling, Proverbs 7:1-10, Catholic Public Domain Version. Public domain.
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