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19     a lovely hind, a graceful doe.
Let her affection fill you at all times with delight,
    be infatuated always with her love.
20 Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman
    and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord,
    and he watches[a] all his paths.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:21 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

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