Sirach 25:3

3 If you have gathered nothing in your youth, how then will you find anything in your old age?

Sirach 25:3 In-Context

1 My whole being takes pleasure in three things, and these are beautiful to the Lord and to human beings: harmony among brothers and sisters, friendship among neighbors, and a wife and husband who adapt to each other.

2 My whole being despises three types of persons, and I am angered by the way they live: an arrogant poor person, a rich liar, an old adulterer who never learns.

3 If you have gathered nothing in your youth, how then will you find anything in your old age?

4 How beautiful is sound judgment in gray-haired women and finding good advice in elderly men!

5 How beautiful is wisdom in the aged and thought and counsel in those who are respectable!