Ben Sira 36:23-29

23 The stomach will take any food, yet one food is better than another.

24 As the palate tastes the kinds of game, so an intelligent mind detects false words.

25 A perverse mind will cause grief, but a person with experience will pay him back.

26 A woman will accept any man as a husband, but one girl is preferable to another.

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.

Footnotes

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