Sirach 22:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death.

¹³ The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of their life.

¹⁴ Talk not much with a fool, and go not with him that hath no sense.