Sirach 10:1-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

10 A wise magistrate educates his people,
    and the rule of an intelligent person is well ordered.
² As the people’s judge is, so are his officials;
    as the ruler of the city is, so are all its inhabitants.
³ An undisciplined king ruins his people,
    but a city becomes fit to live in through the understanding of its rulers.
⁴ The government of the earth is in the hand of the Lord,
    and over it he will raise up the right leader for the time.
⁵ Human success is in the hand of the Lord,
    and it is he who confers honor upon the lawgiver.^[a]