1 Esdras 4:24-26

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁴ he faces lions, and he walks in darkness, and when he steals and robs and plunders, he brings it back to the woman he loves. ²⁵ A man loves his wife more than his father or his mother. ²⁶ Many men have lost their minds because of women, and have become slaves because of them.