Sirach 4:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸ Listen to what the poor have to say, and answer them politely. ⁹ Protect people from those who want to wrong them, and be firm in your judgments. ¹⁰ Be like a father to orphans, and provide widows with the help their husbands can no longer give them. Then you will be like a child of the Most High, and he will love you more than your own mother does.