Sirach 3:24-26

Wycliffe Bible

²⁴ For the suspicion of many men hath deceived them(selves), and withheld their wits in vanity. [Many forsooth supplanted the suspicion of them, and in vanity held down the wits of them.]

²⁵ (This verse is omitted in the original text.)

²⁶ An hard heart shall have evil in the last time; and he that loveth peril shall perish therein. An heart that entereth by two ways, that is, that hath the knowing of good in understanding, and malice in will, shall not have prosperities, either rest; and a man of shrewd (or depraved) heart, shall be slandered in those (or shall be caused to stumble by them). [The hard heart shall have evil in the last; and that loveth peril, in it shall perish. The heart going into two ways, shall not have welsome chances; and the shrewd (or depraved) heart in them shall be caused to stumble.]