Ben Sira 36:21-26

21 A woman will accept any man, but one daughter is better than another.

22 A woman's beauty gladdens the countenance, and surpasses every human desire.

23 If kindness and humility mark her speech, her husband is not like other men.

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

25 Where there is no fence, the property will be plundered; and where there is no wife, a man will wander about and sigh.

26 For who will trust a nimble robber that skips from city to city? So who will trust a man that has no home, and lodges wherever night finds him?