Wisdom 4:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹but understanding is gray hair for anyone,
and a blameless life is ripe old age.

¹⁰There were some who pleased God and were loved by him,
and while living among sinners were taken up.
¹¹They were caught up so that evil might not change their understanding
or guile deceive their souls.

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