Injustice Will Not Prosper

Sirach 40

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;
¹⁷ but kindness is like a garden of blessings,
and almsgiving endures forever.