Sirach 28:21-23

Common English Bible

²¹ The death it inflicts is a wicked death,
    and the grave^[a] is preferable to it.
²² It will never conquer the godly,
    and they won’t be burned by its flame.
²³ Those who abandon the Lord will
fall to it;
    it will burn within them,
    and it will never go out.
    It will be sent against them like a lion,
    and like a leopard it will mangle them.