Sirach 40:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁴As a generous person has cause to rejoice,
    so lawbreakers will utterly fail.
¹⁵The children of the ungodly put out few branches;
    they are unhealthy roots on sheer rock.
¹⁶The reeds by any water or river bank
    are plucked up before any grass;

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