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Never devote all your energy to sex,[a]
    or dedicate your life[b] to destroying kings.
It is not for kings, Lemuel—
    Not for kings to drink wine
        or for rulers to desire liquor.
Otherwise, they may drink and forget what has been ordained,
    perverting justice for all the oppressed.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:3 Lit. women
  2. Proverbs 31:3 Lit. ways