THE WISDOME OF Iesus the sonne of Sirach, Or Ecclesiasticus. Chapter 9

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CHAP. IX.

1 We are aduised how to vse our wiues. 3 What women to auoide. 10 And not to change an old friend. 13 Not to be familiar with men in authority, 14 But to knowe our neighbours, 15 And to conuerse with wise men.

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¹Be not iealous ouer the wife of thy bosome, and teach her not an euil lesson against thy selfe.

²Giue not thy soule vnto a woman, to set her foot vpon thy substance.

³Meete not with an harlot, least thou fall into her snares.

⁴Use not much the companie of a woman that is a singer, least thou be taken with her attempts.⁴

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⁵Gaze not on a maide, that thou fall not by those things, that are pretious in her.

⁶Giue not thy soule vnto harlots, that thou loose not thine inheritance.

⁷Looke not round about thee, in the streets of the citie, neither wander thou in the solitary places thereof.

⁸Turne away thine eye from a beautifull woman, and looke not vpon anothers beautie: for many haue beene deceiued by the beautie of a woman, for heerewith loue is kindled as a fire.⁸

⁹Sit not at all with another mans wife, nor sit downe with her in thine armes, and spend not thy money with her at the wine, least thine heart incline vnto her, and so thorough thy desire thou fall into destruction.

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¹⁰Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine: when it is old, thou shalt drinke it with pleasure.

¹¹Enuy not the glory of a sinner: for thou knowest not what shall be his end.

¹²Delight not in the thing that the vngodly haue pleasure in, but remember they shall not goe vnpunished vnto their graue.

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¹³Keepe thee farre from the man that hath power to kill, so shalt thou not doubt the feare of death: and if thou come vnto him, make no fault, least he take away thy life presently: remember that thou goest in the midst of snares, and that thou walkest vpon the battlements of the citie.

¹⁴As neere as thou canst, ghesse at thy neighbour, and consult with the wise.

¹⁵Let thy talke be with the wise, and all thy communication in the law of the most high.

¹⁶And let iust men eate and drinke with thee, and let thy glorying be in the feare of the Lord.

¹⁷For the hand of the artificer, the worke shall be commended: and the wise ruler of the people, for his speech.

¹⁸A man of an ill tongue is dangerous in his citie, and he that is rash in his talke shall be hated.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Ecclesiasticus Chapter 9

⁴ Or, playeth vpon instruments.
⁸ Gen.34. 22. 2.sam. 11.2. iudg. 10.17.

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