Sirach 23:17-19

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁷ Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for therein is the word of sin.

¹⁸ Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest is the midst of great men:

¹⁹ Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily custom, be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity.