Sirach 9:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in the streets thereof.

⁸ Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon another's beauty.

⁹ For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire.