11. but they keep watch around him, and no one can go away to take care of his own matters, nor do they disobey him.
12. Gentlemen, isn’t the king superior, since he is to be completely obeyed in this manner?" Then he stopped speaking.
13. Then the third young man, Zerubbabel, who had spoken of women and truth, began to speak:
14. “Gentlemen, isn’t the king great, aren’t men abundant, and isn’t wine strong? Who is it, though, that masters them or rules over them? Isn’t it women?
15. Women give birth to the king and to all the people who rule over the sea and land.
16. From women they all are born. It was women who brought up those men who plant the vineyards from which wine is produced.
17. “Women make men’s clothes. They bring men honor. Without women, men aren’t even able to exist.
18. If men gather gold and silver or any valuable thing, and then see a desirable and beautiful woman,
19. they forget everything to gaze at her. With mouths wide open, they stare at her. All choose her over gold, silver, or any other valuable thing.
20. A man leaves his own father, who raised him, and his own country, and clings to his own wife.