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Sirach 16:2-11 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

2. You should not approve of their life, nor should you look with favor on their labors.

3. For one child who fears God is better than one thousand impious children.

4. And it is better to die without children, than to leave behind impious children.

5. By means one person with understanding, a country will be inhabited. The tribe of the impious will become desolate.

6. Many such things my eyes have seen, and greater things than these my ear has heard.

7. In the synagogue of sinners, a fire will blaze forth; and amid an unbelieving people, wrath will flare up.

8. The giants of antiquity did not obtain pardon for their sins; they were destroyed by trusting in their own abilities.

9. And he did not spare the place of Lot's sojourn, and he abhorred them because of the arrogance of their words.

10. He did not take pity on them, destroying an entire people, who even extolled themselves concerning their sins.

11. And this was so with six hundred thousand men, who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts. And if even a single obstinate person had escaped unpunished, it would be a wonder.

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