Ben Sira - chapter 36

36: 1-13, 16-31 (verse numbering is different in NRSV: translation credit to Edgar Goodspeed)
[a prayer of petition]
Have mercy upon us, Lord God of all, and look upon us, and cast fear of you upon all the heathen/nations.  Raise Your hand against alien peoples/foreign nations and let them see Your might.  As You have been sanctified before them, in us, may You be magnified before us, in them; and let them know, as we have known, that there is no God, Lord, but You.  Show signs again, and show other wonders, make Your hand and Your right arm glorious.  Arouse Your anger and pour out Your wrath, destroy the adversary and wipe out the enemy.  Hasten the time and remmber Your oath; and let them relate Your mighty acts.  And those who would save themselves be consumed in furious fire, and let those who harm Your people meet destruction.  Crush the heads of the enemy's rulers, who say, "There is no one but ourselves!"  Gather all the tribes of Jacob, and give them their inheritance, as it was of old.  Have mercy, Lord, on the people that has borne Your name, and on Israel, whom You compared to your first-born.  Have pity on the city of Your sanctuary, Jerusalem, the place where You rest.  Fill Zion with the celbration of Your goodness, and Your people with Your glory.  Bear witness to those whom You created in the beginning, and fulfil the prophecies made in Your name.  Give those who wait for You their reward, and let people trust in Your prophets.  Hear, Lord, the prayer of Your suppliants, with Aaron's blessing on Your people, and all the people on the earth will know that You are the Lord, the eternal God.
(Verses 23-31 follow)
The stomach will eat any food, yet one food is better than another.  As the mouth tastes the meat of game, an intelligent mind detects false words.  A perverse mind causes pain, but an experienced man will pay him back.  A woman can receive any man, yet one girl surpasses another.  A woman' beauty gladdens one's countenance, and exceeds every desire man has.  If mercy and meekness are on her lips, her husband is not like the sons of men.  The man who gets a wife enters upon a possession, a helper like himself, and a pillar of support.  Where there is no hedge, a piece of property will be plundered, and where there is no wife, a man will wander about and groan.  For who will trust an active robber who bounds from one city to another?  So who will trust a man who has no nest, and spends the night wherever evening overtakes him?