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For they are life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.

Keep your heart pure for out of it are the important things of life.

For the lips of a strange woman are as sweet as honey. Her talk is as smooth as oil.

Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you.

For the ways of a man are seen by the eyes of the Lord, and He watches all his paths.

He will die for want of teaching, and will go the wrong way because of the greatness of his foolish ways.

My son, if you have put yourself as a trust for what your neighbor owes to another, or if you have made a promise for a stranger,

Do this now, my son, and get yourself out of trouble, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go without pride and beg your neighbor to let you go.

For the word is a lamp. The teaching is a light, and strong words that punish are the way of life.

For because of a woman who sells the use of her body, one is brought down to a loaf of bread. A sinful woman hunts to take a man's very life.

Men do not hate a robber who steals food for himself when he is hungry.

Jealousy makes a man angry. He will show no pity for the wrong that was done to him.

For I looked out through the wood-work at the window of my house.

"It was time for me to give gifts on the altar in worship, and today I have paid what I promised.

So I have come out to meet you, to look for you, and I have found you.

For my husband is not at home. He has gone on a long trip.

For she has hurt many and destroyed many others. She has killed a great number.

Listen, for I will speak great things. What is right will come from my lips.

For my mouth will speak the truth. My lips hate wrong-doing.

For wisdom is better than stones of great worth. All that you may desire cannot compare with her.