Sirach 4:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.

¹⁹ She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul.

²⁰ Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,