Wisdom 1:12-16

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² Do not invite death by the error of your life,
or bring on destruction by the works of your hands;
¹³ because God did not make death,
and he does not delight in the death of the living.
¹⁴ For he created all things so that they might exist;
the generative forces^[a] of the world are wholesome,
and there is no destructive poison in them,
and the dominion^[b] of Hades is not on earth.
¹⁵ For righteousness is immortal.