Oldest advice on women?

[Rata Blanca]

From the Book of Sirach

1
1 2 Be not jealous of the wife of your bosom, lest you teach her to do evil against you.
2
Give no woman power over you to trample upon your dignity.
3
Be not intimate with a strange woman, lest you fall into her snares.
4
With a singing girl be not familiar, lest you be caught in her wiles.
5
3 Entertain no thoughts against a virgin, lest you be enmeshed in damages for her.
6
Give not yourself to harlots, lest you surrender your inheritance.
7
Gaze not about the lanes of the city and wander not through its squares;
8
Avert your eyes from a comely woman; gaze not upon the beauty of another's wife-- Through woman's beauty many perish, for lust for it burns like fire.
9
With a married woman dine not, recline not at table to drink by her side, Lest your heart be drawn to her and you go down in blood to the grave.

 

[SXS]

Is this from the bible ?

 

[Ol'BlueEyes]

Don't send the ***** for takeout.

--Adam

 

[Nutz]

I LOL'd.

 

[Rata Blanca]

Is this from the bible ?

Yes.

 

[Jitterbug]

8th-7th century BC, the Theogony by Hesiod, on Pandora, the "gift from the gods to men:

The Pandora myth first appears in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's epic poem in epic meter, the Theogony (ca. 8th–7th centuries BC), without ever giving the woman a name. After humans have received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give men a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given. He commands Hephaestus to mould from earth the first woman, a "beautiful evil" whose descendants would torment the race of men. After Hephaestus does so, Athena dressed her in a silvery gown, an embroidered veil, garlands and an ornate crown of gold. This woman goes unnamed in the Theogony, but is presumably Pandora, whose myth Hesiod revisited in Works and Days. When she first appears before gods and mortals, "wonder seized them" as they looked upon her. But she was "sheer guile, not to be withstood by men." Hesiod elaborates (590–93):
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre: Pandora, 1882

From her is the race of women and female kind:
of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who
live amongst mortal men to their great trouble,
no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.

Hesiod goes on to lament that men who try to avoid the evil of women by avoiding marriage will fare no better (604–7):

He reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years,
and though he at least has no lack of livelihood while he lives,
yet, when he is dead, his kinsfolk divide his possessions amongst them.

Hesiod concedes that occasionally a man finds a good wife, but still (609) "evil contends with good."