Ecclesiasticus 40:19
Children, and the building of a city shall establish a name, but a blameless wife shall be counted above them both.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Filii et ædificatio civitatis confirmabit nomen : et super hæc mulier immaculata computabitur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Both. Thus Judith, Zenobia, &c., ennobled their husbands, Proverbs xxxi. 10.
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.