Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Don't sit down to eat with another man's wife or join her for a drink. You may give in to the temptation of her charms and be destroyed by your passion. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire. Sirach 9:7Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in the streets thereof. Sirach 9:8 Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon another's beauty. Sirach 9:10 Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the way. Sirach 9:11 Many by admiring the beauty of another man's wife, have become reprobate, for her conversation burneth as fire. Context Sirach 9…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. 10Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the way.… Cross References Sirach 9:7 Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in the streets thereof. Sirach 9:8 Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon another's beauty. Sirach 9:10 Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the way. Sirach 9:11 Many by admiring the beauty of another man's wife, have become reprobate, for her conversation burneth as fire. |