Sirach 9:2
Good News Translation
Do not surrender your dignity to any woman.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not give yourself to a woman and let her trample down your strength.

Contemporary English Version
If you let yourself fall under the spell of a woman, she will walk all over you.

New American Bible
Do not give a woman power over you to trample on your dignity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy strength, and thou be confounded.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy strength, and thou be confounded.

Sirach 8:22
Open not thy heart to every man: lest he repay thee with an evil turn, and speak reproachfully to thee.

Sirach 9:1
Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy regard the malice of a wicked lesson.

Sirach 9:3
Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares.

Sirach 9:4
Use not much the company of her that is a dancer, and hearken not to her, lest thou perish by the force of her charms.

Context
Sirach 9
1Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy regard the malice of a wicked lesson. 2Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy strength, and thou be confounded. 3Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares.…
Cross References
Sirach 8:22
Open not thy heart to every man: lest he repay thee with an evil turn, and speak reproachfully to thee.

Sirach 9:1
Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy regard the malice of a wicked lesson.

Sirach 9:3
Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares.

Sirach 9:4
Use not much the company of her that is a dancer, and hearken not to her, lest thou perish by the force of her charms.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 9:1
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