Sirach 15:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷The foolish will not obtain her,
    and sinners will not see her.
⁸She is far from arrogance,
    and liars will never think of her.
⁹Praise is unseemly on the lips of a sinner,
    for it has not been sent from the Lord.

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