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A wife with strength of character is the crown of her husband,
but the wife who disgraces him is like bone cancer.

The thoughts of righteous people are fair.
The advice of wicked people is treacherous.
The words of wicked people are a deadly ambush,
but the words [a] of decent people rescue.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:6 Or “mouths.”

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