Sirach 42:11-13

Common English Bible

¹¹Keep a strict watch over
an unruly daughter
    so that she doesn’t make you
    an object of ridicule to your enemies,
    a topic of talk in the city
    and the assembly of the people,
    and she shame you before the crowd.

¹²Don’t consider the beauty
of any person,^[a]
    and don’t spend time among women.
¹³    Moths come out of clothes,
    and a woman’s wickedness
    comes from a woman.

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Footnotes

Sirach 42:12 Heb Don’t allow any latticework in her room nor a place that overlooks the entrance to the house; don’t let her display her beauty before any man.