Sirach 39:26-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁶The basic necessities of human life
    are water and fire and iron and salt
and wheat flour and milk and honey,
    the blood of the grape and oil and clothing.
²⁷All these are good for the godly,
    but for sinners they turn into evils.

²⁸‘There are winds created for vengeance,
and in their anger they can dislodge mountains;^[a]
on the day of reckoning they will pour out their strength
and calm the anger of their Maker.

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Sirach 39:28 Heb Syr: Gk can scourge mightily

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