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Proverbs 5:18-21
18 Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated [1] always in her love.
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? [2]
21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord,
and he ponders [3] all his paths.

Footnotes

[1] Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20
[2] Hebrew a foreign woman
[3] Or makes level
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