Wisdom 6:8-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 but for those in power a rigorous scrutiny impends.
9 To you, therefore, O princes, are my words addressed(A)
that you may learn wisdom and that you may not fall away.
10 For those who keep the holy precepts hallowed will be found holy,
and those learned in them will have ready a response.[a]
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