Ben Sira 40:14

14 As a generous person has cause to rejoice, so lawbreakers will utterly fail.

Ben Sira 40:14 In-Context

12 All bribery and injustice will be blotted out, but good faith will last forever.
13 The wealth of the unjust will dry up like a river, and crash like a loud clap of thunder in a storm.
14 As a generous person has cause to rejoice, so lawbreakers will utterly fail.
15 The children of the ungodly put out few branches; they are unhealthy roots on sheer rock.
16 The reeds by any water or river bank are plucked up before any grass;
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