Sirach 9:2-12 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

2. You should not give authority over your soul to a woman, lest she obtain your strength, and then you would be confounded.

3. You should not look with favor on a woman with many desires, lest perhaps you may fall into her traps.

4. You should not be continually in need of entertainment, nor should you be persuaded by it, lest perhaps you may perish by its effectiveness.

5. You should not stare at a virgin, lest perhaps you may be scandalized by her beauty.

6. You should not give your soul, in any way, to fornicators, lest you destroy yourself and your inheritance.

7. Do not choose to look around in the streets of the city, nor should you wander along its thoroughfares.

8. Avert your face from an ornate woman, for you should not gaze upon strange beauty.

9. Many have perished because of the beauty of a woman; and by this, desire is kindled like a fire.

10. Every woman who is a fornicator will be trampled down, like the filth in the street.

11. Many, by admiring the beauty of the wife of another, have become reprobate. For familiarity with her flares up like a fire.

12. You should not sit down at all with another man's wife, nor recline with her on a couch.

Sirach 9