Ecclesiasticus 40:23
A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above them both is a wife with her husband.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Amicus et sodalis in tempore convenientes, et super utrosque mulier cum viro.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Husband. Their union is closer, and they can best assist each other.
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 5:22-24
A certain wise man, setting down a number of things in the rank of blessings, set down this also in the rank of a blessing, “A wife agreeing with her husband.” ( Ecclus. xxv. 1 .) And elsewhere again he sets it down among blessings, that a woman should dwell in harmony with her husband. ( Ecclus. xl. 23 .) And indeed from the beginning, God appears to have made special provision for this union; and discoursing of the twain as one, He said thus, “Male and female created He them” ( Gen. i. 27 .); and again, “There is neither male nor female.” ( Gal. iii. 28 .) For there is no relationship between man and man so close as that between man and wife, if they be joined together as they should be. …