Good News Translation
If property is not fenced in, thieves will wander in and help themselves. And if a man has no wife, he is a sighing wanderer;

New Revised Standard Version
A perverse mind will cause grief, but a person with experience will pay him back.

Contemporary English Version
People with twisted minds cause a lot of trouble, but if you learn from experience you can send the trouble back on them.

New American Bible
One with a tortuous heart brings about grief, but an experienced person can turn the tables on him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.

If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.

Sirach 36:23
A woman will receive every man: yet one daughter is better than another.

Sirach 36:24
The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance of her husband, and a man desireth nothing more.

Sirach 36:26
He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest.

Sirach 36:27
Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want.