Sirach 40:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

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

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