Sirach 42:7

⁵And of merchants’ indifferent selling; of much correction of children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.

⁶Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where many hands are.

— Sirach 42:7 —

⁸Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus shalt thou be truly learned, and approved of all men living.

⁹The father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth; and the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age; and being married, lest she should be hated: