Good News Translation
If you keep away from someone who has the power to put you to death, you will not have to fear for your life; but if you must go near him, be very careful, or he may kill you. Be conscious that you are walking among hidden traps, that you are an easy target.

Contemporary English Version
Stay away from those who are able to kill you, and you won't live in fear of death. To be near them is to walk through a field full of traps or across a ledge high on the city walls-- make one false step and your life is over.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction.

And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction.

Sirach 9:11
Many by admiring the beauty of another man's wife, have become reprobate, for her conversation burneth as fire.

Sirach 9:12
Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor repose upon the bed with her:

Sirach 9:14
Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him.

Sirach 9:15
A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure.