Sirach 38:31-33

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³¹ All these rely on their hands,
    and all are skillful in their own work.
³² Without them no city can be inhabited,
    and wherever they live, they will not go hungry.^[a]
Yet they are not sought out for the council of the people,^[b]
33     nor do they attain eminence in the public assembly.
They do not sit in the judge’s seat,
    nor do they understand the decisions of the courts;
they cannot expound discipline or judgment,
    and they are not found among the rulers.^[c]