Sirach 36:19–26
19The mouth tastes meats taken in hunting, so does an understanding heart detect false speech.↗
20A contrary heart will cause heaviness. A man of experience will pay him back.↗
21A woman will receive any man, but one daughter is better than another.↗
22The beauty of a woman cheers the countenance. A man desires nothing more.↗
23If kindness and humility are on her tongue, her husband is not like other sons of men.↗
24He who gets a wife gets his richest treasure, a help meet for him and a pillar of support.↗
25Where no hedge is, the property will be plundered. He who has no wife will mourn as he wanders.↗
26For who would trust a nimble robber who skips from city to city? Even so, who would trust a man who has no nest, and lodges wherever he finds himself at nightfall?↗
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