Sirach 23:2-4

Common English Bible

² Who will station whips
to keep my thoughts in line
    and set the discipline of wisdom
    over my heart,
    so that I might not be spared my faults
    due to ignorance
    and my sins not go unnoticed?
³ Otherwise, my acts of ignorance
might multiply,
    and my sins might increase,
    and I’ll fall before my adversaries,
    and my enemy will rejoice over me.^[a]
4 Lord, Father, God of my life,
    don’t let me have prideful eyes;