8:15. Lend not to a man that is mightier than thyself: and if thou lendest, count it as lost. 8:16. Be not surety above thy power: and if thou be surety, think as if thou wert to pay it. 8:17. Judge not against a judge: for he judgeth according to that which is just. 8:18. Go not on the way with a bold man, lest he burden thee with his evils: for he goeth according to his own will, and thou shalt perish together with his folly. 8:19. Quarrel not with a passionate man, and go not into the desert with a bold man: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no help he will overthrow thee. 8:20. Advise not with fools, for they cannot love but such things as please them. 8:21. Before a stranger do no matter of counsel: for thou knowest not what he will bring forth. 8:22. Open not thy heart to every man: lest he repay thee with an evil turn, and speak reproachfully to thee. Ecclesiasticus Chapter 9 Cautions with regard to women, and dangerous conversations. 9:1. Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy regard the malice of a wicked lesson. 9:2. Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy strength, and thou be confounded. 9:3. Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares. 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. 9:5. Gaze not upon a maiden, lest her beauty be a stumblingblock to thee. 9:6. Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy thyself and thy inheritance. 9:7. Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in the streets thereof. 9:8. Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon another's beauty. 9:9. For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire. 9:10. Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the way. 9:11. Many by admiring the beauty of another man's wife, have become reprobate, for her conversation burneth as fire. 9:12. Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor repose upon the bed with her: 9:13. And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction. 9:14. Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him. 9:15. A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure. 9:16. Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be. 9:17. Be not pleased with the wrong done by the unjust, knowing that even to hell the wicked shall not please. 9:18. Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill, so thou shalt not suspect the fear of death. 9:19. And if thou come to him, commit no fault, lest he take away thy life. 9:20. Know it to be a communication with death: for thou art going in the midst of snares, and walking upon the arms of them that are grieved.