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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]
31 For who will trust a nimble robber
    that skips from city to city?
So who will trust a man that has no nest,
    but lodges wherever night overtakes him?

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 36:29 Heb: Gk enters upon a possession
  2. Sirach 36:29 Heb: Gk rest
  3. Sirach 36:30 Heb: Gk wander about and sigh

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