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Turn away your eyes from a shapely woman,
    and do not look intently at beauty belonging to another;
many have been misled by a woman’s beauty,
    and by it passion is kindled like a fire.
Never dine with another man’s wife,
    nor revel with her at wine;
lest your heart turn aside to her,
    and in blood[a] you be plunged into destruction.

Choice of Friends

10 Forsake not an old friend,
    for a new one does not compare with him.
A new friend is like new wine;
    when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 9:9 Heb: Gk by your spirit

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