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12 
The eyes of the Lord keep guard over knowledge and the one who has it,
But He overthrows the words of the treacherous.
13 
The lazy one [manufactures excuses and] says, “There is a lion outside!
I will be killed in the streets [if I go out to work]!”
14 
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable];
He who is cursed by the Lord [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.

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