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Don’t be ashamed of these things,
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of the law of the Most High and his covenant,
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of reckoning with a partner and with travellers,
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of exactness of scales and weights,
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of bargaining dealing with merchants,
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A seal is good where an evil wife is.
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Whatever you hand over, let it be by number and weight.
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Don’t be ashamed to instruct the unwise and foolish,
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A daughter is a secret cause of wakefulness to a father.
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in her virginity, lest she should be defiled and be with child in her father’s house;
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Keep a strict watch over a headstrong daughter,
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Don’t gaze at every beautiful body.
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For from garments comes a moth,
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Better is the wickedness of a man than a pleasant woman,
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I will make mention now of the works of the Lord,
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The sun that gives light looks at all things.
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The Lord has not given power to the saints to declare all his marvellous works,
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He searches out the deep and the heart.
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He declares the things that are past and the things that shall be,
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No thought escapes him.
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He has ordered the mighty works of his wisdom.
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How desirable are all his works!
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All these things live and remain forever in all manner of uses.
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All things are in pairs, one opposite the other.
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One thing establishes the good things of another.