Sirach 9:8
Good News Translation
When you see a good-looking woman, look the other way; don't let your mind dwell on the beauty of any woman who is not your wife. Many men have been led astray by a woman's beauty. It kindles passion as if it were fire.

New Revised Standard Version
Turn away your eyes from a shapely woman, and do not gaze at beauty belonging to another; many have been seduced by a woman’s beauty, and by it passion is kindled like a fire.

Contemporary English Version
Don't stare at a married woman with a beautiful figure. A woman's beauty can set men on fire and has led many astray.

New American Bible
Avert your eyes from a shapely woman; do not gaze upon beauty that is not yours; Through woman’s beauty many have been ruined, for love of it burns like fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon another's beauty.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon another's beauty.

Sirach 9:6
Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy thyself and thy inheritance.

Sirach 9:7
Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in the streets thereof.

Sirach 9:9
For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire.

Sirach 9:10
Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the way.

Context
Sirach 9
7Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in the streets thereof. 8Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon another's beauty. 9For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire.…
Cross References
Sirach 9:6
Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy thyself and thy inheritance.

Sirach 9:7
Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in the streets thereof.

Sirach 9:9
For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire.

Sirach 9:10
Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the way.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

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