Sirach 22:24-26

Wycliffe Bible

²⁴ Heat and smoke of fire is made high before the fire of a chimney; so and cursings, and despisings, and menaces, come before blood. [Before fire of the chimney, moist issue, and the smoke of fire, is enhanced; so and before blood curses, and wrongs, and threats.]

²⁵ I shall not be ashamed for to greet [or to salute] a friend, and I shall not hide me from his face;

²⁶ though evils come to me by him, I shall suffer. Each man that shall hear, shall keep warily himself from him. [and if evils shall come to me by him, I shall suffer. Each that shall hear, shall shun himself from him.]