Ben Sira 17:15-25

15 Their ways are ever before Him, and shall not be hid from His eyes.
16 Every man from his youth is given to evil, neither could they make for themselves fleshy hearts from stony.
17 For in the division of the nations of the whole earth, He set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord's portion,
18 whom, being His first-born, He nourisheth with discipline, and, giving him the light of His love, doth not forsake him.
19 Therefore all their works are as the sun before Him, and His eyes are continually upon their ways.
20 None of their unrighteous deeds are hid from Him, but all their sins are before the Lord.
21 But the Lord, being gracious and knowing His workmanship, neither left nor forsook them, but spared them.
22 The almsgiving of a man is as a signet with Him, and He will keep the good deeds of man as the apple of the eye, and give repentance to His sons and daughters.
23 Afterwards He will rise up and reward them, and render their recompense upon their heads.
24 But unto them that repent, He granted them return, and comforted those that failed in patience.
25 Return unto the Lord, and forsake thy sins; make thy prayer before His face, and offend less.
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