Sirach 26:10
Good News Translation
If your daughter is determined to have her own way, keep a close watch on her. If you don't, she'll take advantage of any chance she gets.

New Revised Standard Version
Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, or else, when she finds liberty, she will make use of it.

Contemporary English Version
If your daughter is rebellious and wants her own way, watch her closely

New American Bible
Keep a strict watch over an unruly wife, lest, finding an opportunity, she use it;

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.

Sirach 26:8
A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart.

Sirach 26:9
With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.

Sirach 26:11
A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid.

Sirach 26:12
The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of her eyes and by her eyelids.

Context
Sirach 26
9With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all. 10As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion. 11A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid.…
Cross References
Sirach 26:8
A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart.

Sirach 26:9
With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.

Sirach 26:11
A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid.

Sirach 26:12
The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of her eyes and by her eyelids.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 26:9
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