Sirach 26:19-23 Common English Bible (CEB)

19. My child, keep the vitalityof your prime of life safe and sound,and don’t give your strengthover to strangers.

20. After you have chosen a fertile plotout of every field,sow your own seed,being confident of yourexcellent descent.

21. Thus your offspring who surround youand who have confidencein their excellent descent,will become great.

22. A hired woman will be consideredthe same as spit,but a married woman will be considered a tower of death to those who associate too closely with her.

23. An ungodly woman will be bestowedon a lawless man as his portion,but a godly woman is grantedto the man who fears the Lord.

Sirach 26