Sirach 23:20-22

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁰Before the universe was created, it was known to him,
and so it is since its completion.
²¹This man will be punished in the streets of the city,
and where he least suspects it, he will be seized.

²²So it is with a woman who leaves her husband
and presents him with an heir by another man.

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