Sirach 10:3-5

Revised Standard Version

³ An undisciplined king will ruin his people,
    but a city will grow through the understanding of its rulers.
⁴ The government of the earth is in the hands of the Lord,
    and over it he will raise up the right man for the time.
⁵ The success of a man is in the hands of the Lord,
    and he confers his honor upon the person of the scribe.^[a]