Ben Sira 19:2

2 Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away, and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.

Ben Sira 19:2 In-Context

1 A laboring man that is given to drunkenness shall not be rich, and he that contemneth small things shall fall little by little.

2 Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away, and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.

3 Moths and worms shall have him for an inheritance, and a bold man shall be taken away.

4 He that is hasty to give credit is light-minded, and he that sinneth shall offend against his own soul.

5 Whoso taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned, but he that resisteth pleasures crowneth his life.