Sirach 40:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁴ As a generous person has cause to rejoice,
    so lawbreakers will utterly fail.
¹⁵ The children of the ungodly put out few branches;
    they are unhealthy roots on sheer rock.
¹⁶ The reeds by any water or river bank
    are plucked up before any grass;