Sirach 10:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³ An undisciplined king ruins his people,
    but a city becomes fit to live in through the understanding of its rulers.
⁴ The government of the earth is in the hand of the Lord,
    and over it he will raise up the right leader for the time.
⁵ Human success is in the hand of the Lord,
    and it is he who confers honour upon the lawgiver.^[a]