Sirach 2:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ Wait on God with patience: join thyself to God, and endure, that thy life may be increased in the latter end.

⁴ Take all that shall be brought upon thee: and in thy sorrow endure, and in thy humiliation keep patience.

⁵ For gold and silver are tried in the fire, but acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.