# Sirach 26:7

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

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/26/7
- Book: [Sirach](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach)
- Chapter: [Sirach 26](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/26)
- Background: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach#background-and-history
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An evil wife is a yoke shaken to and fro: he that hath hold of her is as though he held a scorpion.