Sirach 9:9
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
Never dine with another man’s wife, or revel with her at wine; or your heart may turn aside to her, and in blood you may be plunged into destruction.

Contemporary English Version
Never have dinner or drinks with someone else's wife. To fall in love with her is to fall to your death.

New American Bible
Never recline at table with a married woman, or drink intoxicants with her, Lest your heart be drawn to her and you go down in blood to the grave.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire.

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

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.

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.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 9:8
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