Sirach 30:19-21

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁹ What shall sacrifice profit to an idol? [or What shall profit sacrifice to the maumet?] for why it shall not eat, neither shall smell. So he that is driven away from the Lord,

²⁰ and beareth the meeds (or the rewards) of wickedness, [or of shrewdness, (or of depravity)], seeing with eyes, and wailing inwardly, as a gelding embracing a virgin [or a maiden], and sighing.

²¹ Give thou not sorrow to thy soul, that is, unreasonable sorrow, that annoyeth (or harmeth) both body and soul, and torment not thyself in (or with) thy (own) counsel, as they do that despair through sorrow, and then slay themselves. [Sorrowy idleness give thou not to thy soul, nor torment thou thyself in thy counsel.]