Sirach 21:6-10 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

6. Supplications from the mouth of the pauper will reach all the way to the ears of God, and judgment will come to him quickly.

7. Whoever hates correction is walking in the steps of a sinner. But whoever fears God will convert within his heart.

8. He who has power by means of a bold tongue will be known from far away. But an understanding man knows to slip past him.

9. Whoever builds his house, paid for by another, is like one who gathers his building stones in winter.

10. The synagogue of sinners is like stubble piled up; for the end of them both is a burning fire.

Sirach 21