Sirach 7:24-26

Common English Bible

²⁴ Do you have daughters?
Be attentive to their chastity,^[a]
    and don’t be too cheerful with them.^[b]
25 Give a daughter in marriage,
and you will have completed a great deed,
    but present her
    to an understanding husband.
²⁶ Do you have a wife who is a soul mate?^[c]
    Don’t divorce her,
    and don’t trust yourself to a woman
    whom you hate.