Sirach 17:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye:

¹⁹ And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their reward, to every one upon their own head, and shall turn them down into the bowels of the earth.

²⁰ But to the penitent he hath given the way of justice, and he hath strengthened them that were fainting in patience, and hath appointed to them the lot of truth.