Sirach 2:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁰Consider the generations of old and see:
    has anyone trusted in the Lord and been disappointed?
Or has anyone persevered in the fear of the Lord^[a] and been forsaken?
    Or has anyone called upon him and been neglected?
¹¹For the Lord is compassionate and merciful;
    he forgives sins and saves in time of distress.

¹²Woe to timid hearts and to slack hands,
and to the sinner who walks a double path!

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Sirach 2:10 Gk of him

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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