Sirach 16:4-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴For through one intelligent person a city can be filled with people,
but through a clan of outlaws it becomes desolate.

⁵Many such things my eye has seen,
and my ear has heard things more striking than these.
⁶In an assembly of sinners a fire is kindled,
and in a disobedient nation wrath blazes up.

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