Ecclesiasticus 36:23
A woman will receive every man: yet one daughter is better than another.
Challoner: A woman will receive every manThat is, any man that her parents propose to her to marry, though she does not like him, but marries in obedience to her parents, who make the choice for her.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Omnem masculum excipiet mulier : et est filia melior filia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Man. Yet in marriage the temper of the person is to be considered.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.