1 Esdras 4:36-38

Common English Bible

³⁶ The whole earth calls on truth, and heaven praises it. All of heaven’s works^[a] move and tremble at the sight of it, and there’s nothing wrong with truth. ³⁷ You can’t trust wine; you can’t trust the king; you can’t trust women. No human beings are trustworthy. Everything they do is wrong. There is no truth in them. They will perish in their lies. ³⁸ But truth endures and is valid for all time; it lives and succeeds forever.