Sirach 4:17-19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷ For at first she will walk with them on tortuous paths;
    she will bring fear and dread upon them,
and will torment them by her discipline
    until she trusts them,^[a]
and she will test them with her ordinances.
¹⁸ Then she will come straight back to them again and gladden them,
    and will reveal her secrets to them.
¹⁹ If they go astray she will forsake them,
    and hand them over to their ruin.