Timeless Faith
#158 The Wisdom of Sirach - Chapter 23
4:16
From The Wisdom of Sirach, the Apocrypha
O Lord, Father and Governor of all my whole life, leave me not to their counsels, and let me not fall by them. Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine ignorances, and it pass not by my sins: Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my destruction, and I fall before…