# Sirach 31:20

**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/31/20
- Book: [Sirach](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach)
- Chapter: [Sirach 31](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/31)
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Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating: he riseth early, and his wits are with him: but the pain of watching, and choler, and pangs of the belly, are with an unsatiable man.