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Wisdom of Ben Sira 40:9-11
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom of Ben Sira 40:9-11
New Catholic Bible
9 come death and bloodshed, strife and sword,
disasters and famine, affliction and plague.
10 All these calamities were created for the wicked,
and the flood came because of them.
11 All that is of the earth returns to the earth,
and all that is from the waters returns to the sea.[a]
Footnotes
- Wisdom of Ben Sira 40:11 And all that is from the waters returns to the sea: Hebrew reads: “and what comes from above returns above” (see Eccl 12:7).
