Sirach 21:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³All lawlessness is like a two-edged sword;
there is no healing for the wound it inflicts.

⁴Panic and insolence will waste away riches;
thus the house of the proud will be laid waste.^[a]
⁵The prayer of the poor goes from their lips to the ears of God,^[b]
and his judgement comes speedily.

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Footnotes

Sirach 21:4 Other ancient authorities read uprooted
Sirach 21:5 Gk his ears

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