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1…speaks vanity
and…errors.
She is ever prompt to oil her words,
and she flatters with irony,
deriding with iniquitous l[ips].
Her heart is set up as a snare,
and her kidneys (affections) as a fowler’s nets.
[Her eyes] are defiled with iniquity,
This article is based on Joseph M. Baumgarten, “On the Nature of the Seductress in 4Q184,” Revue de
QuÆmran 15 (1991–1992), pp. 133–143, and appears here with his approval.
kicked myself out of paradise
left a hole in the morning
no note no goodbye
the man I lived with
was patient and hairy
he cared for the animals
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