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Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, or she may make you a laughingstock to your enemies, a byword in the city and the assembly of the people, and put you to shame in public gatherings. See that there is no lattice in her room, no spot that overlooks the approaches to the house.
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Do not let her parade her beauty before any man, or spend her time among married women;
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for from garments comes the moth, and from a woman comes woman's wickedness.
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Better is the wickedness of a man than a woman who does good; it is woman who brings shame and disgrace.
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I will now call to mind the works of the Lord, and will declare what I have seen. By the word of the Lord his works are made; and all his creatures do his will.
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The sun looks down on everything with its light, and the work of the Lord is full of his glory.
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The Lord has not empowered even his holy ones to recount all his marvelous works, which the Lord the Almighty has established so that the universe may stand firm in his glory.
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He searches out the abyss and the human heart; he understands their innermost secrets. For the Most High knows all that may be known; he sees from of old the things that are to come.
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He discloses what has been and what is to be, and he reveals the traces of hidden things.
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No thought escapes him, and nothing is hidden from him.
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He has set in order the splendors of his wisdom; he is from all eternity one and the same. Nothing can be added or taken away, and he needs no one to be his counselor.