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You should not favor a woman’s beauty, and you should not desire a wife for her beauty. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 28)
The beginning of sin came from a woman; and through her, we all die. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 33)
For your heart suffers from imagination, like a woman suffering in childbirth. Unless it is a visitation sent from the Most High, you should not set your heart upon it. (Ecclesiasticus 34, 6)
A woman can receive any male, yet one daughter is better than another. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 23)
Do not discuss holiness with an irreligious man, nor justice with one who is unjust. You should not speak with a woman about her who is a rival, nor with a coward about war, nor with a merchant about exaggeration, nor with a buyer about selling, nor with a spiteful man about giving thanks, (Ecclesiasticus 37, 12)
of silence before those who greet you, of looking upon a woman of fornication, and of averting your face from a relative. (Ecclesiasticus 41, 25)
For a moth goes forth from garments, and iniquity over a man goes forth from a woman. (Ecclesiasticus 42, 13)
Yet iniquity over a man is better for her than if a married woman, seeking to benefit her, instead leads her into confusion and disgrace. (Ecclesiasticus 42, 14)
Neigh with your voice, daughter of Gallim; pay attention, Laishah, impoverished woman of Anathoth. (Isaiah 10, 30)
Writhing and pain will seize them. They will be in pain, like a woman in labor. Each one will appear stupefied to his neighbor. Their countenances will be like faces which have been burned up. (Isaiah 13, 8)
Because of this, my lower back has been filled with pain, and anguish has possessed me, like the anguish of a woman in labor. I fell down when I heard it. I was disturbed when I saw it. (Isaiah 21, 3)
Like a woman who has conceived and is approaching the time for delivery, who, in anguish, cries out in her pains, so have we become before your face, O Lord. (Isaiah 26, 17)