Sirach 25:2-4

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²My soul hates three kinds of men,
and I am greatly offended at their life:
a beggar who is proud, a rich man who is a liar,
and an adulterous old man who lacks good sense.

³You have gathered nothing in your youth;
how then can you find anything in your old age?
⁴What an attractive thing is judgment in gray-haired men,
and for the aged to possess good counsel!

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