# Sirach 19:12

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

> The King James Version (1769), including the Apocrypha, is in the public domain in the United States. Letters patent restrict printing this translation in the United Kingdom.

- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/19/12
- Book: [Sirach](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach)
- Chapter: [Sirach 19](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/19)
- Background: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach#background-and-history
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As an arrow that sticketh in a man’s thigh, so is a word within a fool’s belly.
