Sirach 27:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷Do not praise anyone before he speaks,
for this is the way people are tested.

Reward and Retribution

⁸If you pursue justice, you will attain it
and wear it like a glorious robe.
⁹Birds roost with their own kind,
so honesty comes home to those who practise it.

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