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8:14. Stand not against the face of an injurious person, lest he sit as
a spy to entrap thee in thy words.
8:15. Lend not to a man that is mightier than thyself: and if thou
lendest, count it as lost.
8:16. Be not surety above thy power: and if thou be surety, think as if
thou wert to pay it.
8:17. Judge not against a judge: for he judgeth according to that which
is just.
8:18. Go not on the way with a bold man, lest he burden thee with his
evils: for he goeth according to his own will, and thou shalt perish
together with his folly.
8:19. Quarrel not with a passionate man, and go not into the desert with
a bold man: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no
help he will overthrow thee.
8:20. Advise not with fools, for they cannot love but such things as
please them.
8:21. Before a stranger do no matter of counsel: for thou knowest not
what he will bring forth.
8:22. Open not thy heart to every man: lest he repay thee with an evil
turn, and speak reproachfully to thee.
Ecclesiasticus Chapter 9
Cautions with regard to women, and dangerous conversations.
9:1. Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy
regard the malice of a wicked lesson.
9:2. Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy
strength, and thou be confounded.
9:3. Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall
into her snares.
9:4. Use not much the company of her that is a dancer, and hearken not
to her, lest thou perish by the force of her charms.
9:5. Gaze not upon a maiden, lest her beauty be a stumblingblock to
thee.
9:6. Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy
thyself and thy inheritance.
9:7. Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up
and down in the streets thereof.
9:8. Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon
another's beauty.
9:9. For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is
enkindled as a fire.
9:10. Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the
way.
9:11. Many by admiring the beauty of another man's wife, have become
reprobate, for her conversation burneth as fire.
9:12. Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor repose upon the bed
with her:
9:13. And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards
her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction.
9:14. Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him.
9:15. A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt
drink it with pleasure.
9:16. Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not
what his ruin shall be.
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