Sirach 36:24-26

Wycliffe Bible

²⁴ He that hath in possession a good woman, beginneth (a) possession; she is an help like (to) him(self), and a pillar as (or of) rest.

²⁵ Where an hedge is not, the possession shall be ravished away [or broken]; and where a woman is not, a needy man waileth.

²⁶ To whom believeth he that hath no nest, and boweth down wherever it is dark, as a thief girt, skipping out from city into city? [To whom believeth he that hath not a nest, and bowing down wherever shall be dark, as a girded up thief, leaping out from city into city?]