41:22. Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people: 41:23. Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest, 41:24. Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking: 41:25. Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman. 41:26. Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring. 41:27. Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed. 41:28. Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not. Ecclesiasticus Chapter 42 Of what things we ought not to be ashamed. Cautions with regard to women. The works and greatness of God. 42:1. Repeat not the word which thou hast heard, and disclose not the thing that is secret; so shalt thou be truly without confusion, and shalt find favour before all men: be not ashamed of any of these things, and accept no person to sin thereby: 42:2. Of the law of the most High, and of his covenant, and of judgment to justify the ungodly: 42:3. Of the affair of companions and travellers, and of the gift of the inheritance of friends: 42:4. Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little: 42:5. Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed. 42:6. Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife. 42:7. Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in. 42:8. Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living. 42:9. The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be hateful: 42:10. In her virginity, lest she should be corrupted, and be found with child in her father's house: and having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself, or at the least become barren. 42:11. Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at anytime she make thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before all the multitude. 42:12. Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry not among women. 42:13. For from garments cometh a moth, and from a woman the iniquity of a man. 42:14. For better is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good turn, and a woman bringing shame and reproach.