Sirach 51:4-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ from choking fire on every side,
    and from the midst of fire that I had not kindled,
⁵ from the deep belly of Hades,
    from an unclean tongue and lying words—
⁶     the slander of an unrighteous tongue to the king.
My soul drew near to death,
    and my life was on the brink of Hades below.