Sirach 4:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵Do not avert your eye from the needy,
and give no one reason to curse you;
⁶for if in bitterness of soul some should curse you,
their Creator will hear their prayer.

⁷Endear yourself to the congregation;
bow your head low to the great.

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New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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