Commentary for Kiddushin 58:18
אמר רבא וכן תנא דבי ר' ישמעאל עד כ' שנה יושב הקב"ה ומצפה לאדם מתי ישא אשה כיון שהגיע כ' ולא נשא אומר תיפח עצמותיו
Because I am not married,' was the reply. Thereupon he [R'Huna] turned his face away from him.' See to it that you do not appear before me [again] before you are married,' said he.
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
A word of warning about sources like this and the ones that come before and after. The rabbis clearly want men to marry by the age of twenty. This does not mean that men did so. Indeed, I could argue that this source implies that men were not marrying before twenty—otherwise why exhort them to do so.
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