Sirach 27:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

Reward and Retribution

⁸If you pursue justice, you will attain it
    and wear it like a glorious robe.
⁹Birds roost with their own kind,
    so honesty comes home to those who practise it.
¹⁰A lion lies in wait for prey;
    so does sin for evildoers.

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