Sirach 42:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ A daughter is a hidden source
of sleeplessness for her father,
    and anxiety about her deprives him
    of sleep:
    in her youth, that she doesn’t pass
    her prime,
    and when she’s married,
    that she not be hated;
¹⁰     while she’s a virgin,
    that she not be seduced
    and become pregnant
    while still living at home;
    when she’s married,
    that she not go straying;
    or having married,
    that she not be infertile.
¹¹ Keep 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.