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.