Sirach 26:16
Good News Translation
The beauty of a good wife in her well-kept home is like the noonday sun shining in the Lord's sky.

New Revised Standard Version
Like the sun rising in the heights of the Lord, so is the beauty of a good wife in her well-ordered home.

Contemporary English Version
She has organized her home, and her beauty there is like the sun as it rises in the Lord's heaven.

New American Bible
The sun rising in the Lord’s heavens— the beauty of a good wife in her well-ordered home.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and shall fat his bones.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and shall fat his bones.

Sirach 26:14
Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she slight thee.

Sirach 26:15
She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail.

Sirach 26:17
Her discipline is the gift of God.

Sirach 26:18
Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much worth as a well instructed soul.

Context
Sirach 26
15She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail. 16The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and shall fat his bones. 17Her discipline is the gift of God.…
Cross References
Sirach 26:14
Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she slight thee.

Sirach 26:15
She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail.

Sirach 26:17
Her discipline is the gift of God.

Sirach 26:18
Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much worth as a well instructed soul.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 26:15
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