Ben Sira 26:27

27 [A loud-voiced and garrulous wife is like a trumpet sounding the charge,] [and every person like this lives in the anarchy of war.]

Ben Sira 26:27 In-Context

25 [A headstrong wife is regarded as a dog,] [but one who has a sense of shame will fear the Lord.]

26 [A wife honoring her husband will seem wise to all,] [but if she dishonors him in her pride she will be known to all as ungodly.] [Happy] [is the husband of a good wife; [for the number of his years will be doubled.]

27 [A loud-voiced and garrulous wife is like a trumpet sounding the charge,] [and every person like this lives in the anarchy of war.]

28 At two things my heart is grieved, and because of a third anger comes over me: a warrior in want through poverty, intelligent men who are treated contemptuously, and a man who turns back from righteousness to sin -- the Lord will prepare him for the sword!

29 A merchant can hardly keep from wrongdoing, nor is a tradesman innocent of sin.