Sirach 23:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear:

³ Lest my ignorance increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me?

⁴ O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices.