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Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where many hands are.
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Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.
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Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus shalt thou be truly learned, and approved of all men living.
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The father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth; and the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age; and being married, lest she should be hated:
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In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with child in her father's house; and having an husband, lest she should misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she should be barren.
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Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.
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Behold not every body's beauty, and sit not in the midst of women.
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For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness.
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Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.
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I will now remember the works of the Lord, and declare the things that I have seen: In the words of the Lord are his works.
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The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.