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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.

11 Do not envy the honors of a sinner,
    for you do not know what his end will be.

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Footnotes

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

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