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Proverbs 31:3

“Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.”

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¹These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:

²What shall I say, O my son? What, O son of my womb? What, O son of my vows?

³Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

⁴It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,

⁵Lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.

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