Sirach 16:21-23

Good News Translation

²¹If I sin and am secretly disloyal, nobody will know it.^[a] ²²If I do what is right, nobody will tell the Lord about it. Who wants to wait for him, anyway? He is too slow in doing what he has said he would.

²³Only someone with very little sense, and foolishly misguided, would think things like that.

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Footnotes

Sirach 16:21 Hebrew ^20-21The Lord...know it; Greek ²⁰It is altogether too big for the human mind to handle. No one can understand his ways. ²¹Most of his works are just as invisible as the storm wind.