1 Esdras 4:16-18

Revised Standard Version

¹⁶ From women they came; and women brought up the very men who plant the vineyards from which comes wine. ¹⁷ Women make men’s clothes; they bring men glory; men cannot exist without women. ¹⁸ If men gather gold and silver or any other beautiful thing, and then see a woman lovely in appearance and beauty,