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Ecclesiasticus 42:6

Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Super mulierem nequam bonum est signum.
Septuagint (Swete): Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.

Haydock's commentary

Keeping. Literally, "a seal." (Haydock)

All must be locked up.

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.