Good News Translation
When a man marries, he gets the finest thing he will ever have--a wife to help and encourage him.

New Revised Standard Version
As the palate tastes the kinds of game, so an intelligent mind detects false words.

Contemporary English Version
And just as your taste tells you what you are eating, a smart mind will know when it hears a lie.

New American Bible
The palate tests delicacies put forward as gifts, so does a keen mind test deceitful tidbits.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance of her husband, and a man desireth nothing more.

The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance of her husband, and a man desireth nothing more.

Sirach 36:22
A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will resist it.

Sirach 36:23
A woman will receive every man: yet one daughter is better than another.

Sirach 36:25
If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.

Sirach 36:26
He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest.