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Proverbs 5:18-20
Contemporary English Version

18 Be happy with the wife
you married
    when you were young.
19 She is beautiful and graceful,
    just like a deer;
you should be attracted to her
    and stay deeply in love.

20 Don't go crazy over a woman
who is unfaithful
    to her own husband!

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Proverbs 5:18-20
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18 May your fountain(A) be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.(B)
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer(C)—
    may her breasts satisfy you always,
    may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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