Sirach 18:10-12

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁰ be areckoned as the drops of the water of the sea; and as the stone (or as a stone) of gravel, so a few years in the day of everlastingness. [as drops of the water of the sea they be ordained; and as a little stone of gravel, so few years in the day of the spiritual world.]

¹¹ For this thing God is patient in (or with) them, and sheddeth out on them his mercy. [For that patient is God in them, and he shall pour out upon them his mercy.]

¹² He saw the presumption, [or pride], of their heart, for it was evil; and he knew the destroying of them, for it was wicked, [or shrewd, (or depraved)]. Therefore he filled his mercy in them, and showed to them the way of equity.