Sirach 24:30-32

Good News Translation

³⁰ As for me, I thought of myself as an irrigation canal bringing water from a river into a garden. ³¹ I only intended to water my orchard and flower beds, but the canal soon became a river, and the river became a sea. ³² And so I present you with my learning; I hold it high, so that its light can be seen everywhere, like that of the rising sun.