Good News Translation
people have no more trust in a homeless person who sleeps in a different place every night than they have in a wandering thief who goes from town to town.

New Revised Standard Version
A woman will accept any man as a husband, but one girl is preferable to another.

Contemporary English Version
A woman cannot choose the man she will marry, but a man can choose his wife, and some women make better wives than others.

New American Bible
A woman will accept any man as husband, but one woman will be preferable to another.

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

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

Sirach 36:24
The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance of her husband, and a man desireth nothing more.

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 36:27
Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want.

Sirach 36:28
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.