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Sirach 26:4-9 World English Bible (WEB)

4. Whether a man be rich or poor, A good heart makes at all times a cheerful countenance.

5. Of three things my heart was afraid; And concerning the fourth kind I made supplication: The slander of a city, and the assembly of a multitude, and a false accusation: All these are more grievous than death.

6. A grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous of another woman, And the scourge of a tongue communicating to all.

7. A wicked woman is as a yoke of oxen shaken to and fro: He that takes hold of her is as one that graspeth a scorpion.

8. A drunken woman causes great wrath; And she will not cover her own shame.

9. The whoredom of a woman is in the lifting up of her eyes; And it shall be known by her eyelids.