Sirach 39:23–30

²³The nations will inherit his wrath,

as when he turned a watered land into salt.

²⁴To the faithful his ways are straight

but full of pitfalls for the lawless.^*

²⁵From the beginning good things were created for the good

but for sinners good things and bad.^l*

²⁶The basic necessities of human life

are water and fire and iron and salt

and wheat flour and milk and honey,

the blood of the grape and oil and clothing.^*

²⁷All these are good for the godly,

but for sinners they turn into evils.^*

²⁸“There are winds created for vengeance,

and in their anger they can dislodge mountains;^m

on the day of reckoning they will pour out their strength

and calm the anger of their Maker.^*

²⁹Fire and hail and famine and pestilence—

all these have been created for vengeance;^*

³⁰the fangs of wild animals and scorpions and vipers

and the sword that punishes the ungodly with destruction.^*