Sirach 29:12-14

Wycliffe Bible

¹² Close thou alms in the bosom of a poor man; and this alms shall pray for thee to be delivered of (or by) God from all evil. The alms of a man is as a bag [or as a little sack] with him; and it shall keep the grace of [a] man, that is, God’s grace, given to man, as the apple of the eye. And afterward it shall rise again, and shall yield to them a yielding, to each man into (or onto) the head of them.

¹³ Above, [or Over, (or Better than)] the shield of a mighty man, and above, [or over, (or better than)] a spear it shall fight against thine enemy.

¹⁴ A good man maketh faith to (or for) his neighbour in becoming (a) borrow(er), (or a guarantor), for him in need; and he that loseth, shall leave shame to him.