Sirach 2:12 CPDV

¹⁰  You who fear the Lord, love him. And your hearts will be illuminated.

¹¹  My sons, consider the nations of men, and know that not one of them hoped in the Lord and was confounded.

¹²  For who has remained in his commandment and been abandoned? Or who has called upon him, and yet he despised him?

¹³  For God is upright and merciful, and he will forgive sins in the day of tribulation. And he is the Protector to all those who seek him in truth.

¹⁴  Woe to the duplicitous heart, and to the wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner who walks the earth by two ways!