Ben Sira 36:29

29 He who acquires a wife gets his best possession, a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.

Ben Sira 36:29 In-Context

27 A woman's beauty lights up a man's face, and there is nothing he desires more.

28 If kindness and humility mark her speech, her husband is more fortunate than other men.

29 He who acquires a wife gets his best possession, a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.

30 Where there is no fence, the property will be plundered; and where there is no wife, a man will become a fugitive and a wanderer.

31 For who will trust a nimble robber that skips from city to city? So who will trust a man that has no nest, but lodges wherever night overtakes him?

Footnotes

• [a]. Heb: Gk [enters upon a possession]
• [b]. Heb: Gk [rest]