Sirach 40:8-10

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⁸ To all creatures, human and animal,
    but to sinners seven times more,
⁹ come death and bloodshed and strife and sword,
    calamities and famine and ruin and plague.
¹⁰ All these were created for the lawless,
    and on their account the flood came.^(A)