Sirach 9:5
King James VersionSource notes
“Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that are precious in her.”
Context
2Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.
3Meet not with an harlot, lest thou fall into her snares.
4Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest thou be taken with her attempts.
5Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that are precious in her.
6Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine inheritance.
7Look not round about thee in the streets of the city, neither wander thou in the solitary place thereof.
8Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another’s beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.