Sirach 18:23-25

Wycliffe Bible

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.]

²⁵ Have thou mind of (or remember) poverty in the day of abundance; and the need of poverty in the time of riches. [Have mind of poverty in the time of plenty; and the need of poverty in the day of riches.]