Sirach 23:2-4

Good News Translation

² I wish I could be whipped for my thoughts, so that Wisdom could discipline my mind. I would not want to be spared when I am wrong; I would not want a single sin to be overlooked! ³ Then I would not keep on sinning, making one mistake after another. I could not fall to my enemies and be humiliated by them.

⁴ O Lord, my Father, God of my life, keep me from being arrogant;