Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version If kindness and humility mark her speech, her husband is more fortunate than other men. Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Who will trust him that hath no rest, and that lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him, as a robber well appointed, that skippeth from city to city. Sirach 36:26He 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. Sirach 37:1 Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a friend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to death? Sirach 37:2 But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy. Context Sirach 36…27Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want. 28Who will trust him that hath no rest, and that lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him, as a robber well appointed, that skippeth from city to city. … Cross References 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. Sirach 37:1 Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a friend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to death? Sirach 37:2 But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy. |