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?
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.