1 O Lord, Father and Master of my life, don’t abandon me to their counsel. Don’t let me fall because of them. (WEB) 2 Who will set scourges over my thought, and a discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not for my errors, and not overlook their sins? (WEB) 3 Otherwise my errors might be multiplied, and my sins abound, I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me. (WEB)
Sirach 23:1–3
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