Sirach 3:15-17

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁵ And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the father shall not be forgotten.

¹⁶ For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother.

¹⁷ And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of affliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as the ice in the fair warm weather.