Sirach 28:20-22

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²⁰for its yoke is a yoke of iron,
    and its fetters are fetters of bronze;
²¹its death is an evil death,
    and Hades is preferable to it.
²²It will not be master over the godly,
    and they will not be burned in its flame.

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