Wisdom 16:28-29

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁸to make it known that one must rise before the sun to give you thanks,
and must pray to you at the dawning of the light;
²⁹for the hope of an ungrateful person will melt like wintry frost,
and flow away like waste water.

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