Wisdom 1:12-16

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² Do not invite death by the error of your life,
nor 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 that they might exist,
and 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.