Sirach 18:22-24

Wycliffe Bible

²² Be thou not hindered to pray ever(more), and dread thou not to be justified till to death; for why the meed of God dwelleth without end. [Be thou not letted to pray evermore, and dread thou not unto the dead to be justified; for the meed of God dwelleth into without end.]

²³ Before prayer make ready [or prepare] thy soul; and do not thou be as a man that tempteth God, that is, that a man betake himself to peril, and believe that that he may do reasonably, and (then) abide to be delivered of (or by) God.

²⁴ Have thou mind of (or remember) (the) ire in the day of ending; and make thou in living the time of yielding. [Have mind of wrath in the day of ending; and time of yielding in conversation thou shalt make.]