Sirach 36:26-28

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁶ He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest.

²⁷ Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want.

²⁸ Who will trust him that hath no rest, and that lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him, as a robber well appointed, that skippeth from city to city.