Sirach 36:28-30

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁸ If kindness and humility mark her speech,
    her husband is more fortunate than other men.
²⁹ He who acquires a wife gets his best possession,^[a]
    a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.^[b]
30 Where there is no fence, the property will be plundered;
    and where there is no wife, a man will become a fugitive and a wanderer.^[c]