Sirach 40:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁹ come death and bloodshed and strife and sword,
    calamities and famine and ruin and plague.
¹⁰ All these were created for the wicked,
    and on their account the flood came.
¹¹ All that is of earth returns to earth,
    and what is from above returns above.^[a]