1 Esdras 4:16

16 From women they came; and women brought up the very men who plant the vineyards from which comes wine.

1 Esdras 4:16 In-Context

14 Gentlemen, is not the king great, and are not men many, and is not wine strong? Who then is their master, or who is their lord? Is it not women?

15 Women gave birth to the king and to every people that rules over sea and land.

16 From women they came; and women brought up the very men who plant the vineyards from which comes wine.

17 Women make men's clothes; they bring men glory; men cannot exist without women.

18 If men gather gold and silver or any other beautiful thing, and then see a woman lovely in appearance and beauty,