Sirach 36:23-25

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²³ If kindness and humility mark her speech,
    her husband is not like other men.
²⁴ He who acquires a wife gets his best possession,^[a]
    a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.^[b]
25 Where there is no fence, the property will be plundered;
    and where there is no wife, a man will wander about and sigh.