Sirach 36:28
New Revised Standard Version
If kindness and humility mark her speech, her husband is more fortunate than other men.

Contemporary English Version
But a man is really lucky if his wife speaks with humility and kindness.

New American Bible
And if, besides, her speech is soothing, her husband’s lot is beyond that of mortal men.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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.

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

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 37:1
Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a friend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to death?

Sirach 37:2
But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy.

Context
Sirach 36
27Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want. 28Who 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.
Cross References
Sirach 36:26
He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest.

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 37:1
Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a friend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to death?

Sirach 37:2
But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 36:27
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