Sirach 26:9
Good News Translation
You can tell an unfaithful wife by the bold and flirting look in her eyes.

New Revised Standard Version
The haughty stare betrays an unchaste wife; her eyelids give her away.

Contemporary English Version
You know a wife is unfaithful if her eyes have a look of invitation. *

New American Bible
By her haughty stare and her eyelids an unchaste wife can be recognized.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.

Sirach 26:7
And a false calumny, all are more grievous than death.

Sirach 26:8
A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart.

Sirach 26:10
As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.

Sirach 26:11
A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid.

Context
Sirach 26
8A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart. 9With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all. 10As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.…
Cross References
Sirach 26:7
And a false calumny, all are more grievous than death.

Sirach 26:8
A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart.

Sirach 26:10
As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.

Sirach 26:11
A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 26:8
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