Sirach 40:5-15

1. 5 Wrath, and envy, trouble, and unquietness, fear of death, and anger, and strife, and in the time of rest upon his bed his night sleep, do change his knowledge.

2. 6 A little or nothing is his rest, and afterward he is in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he were escaped out of a battle.

3. 7 When all is safe, he awaketh, and marvelleth that the fear was nothing.

4. 8 [Such things happen] unto all flesh, both man and beast, and that is sevenfold more upon sinners.

5. 9 Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge;

6. 10 These things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes came the flood.

7. 11 All things that are of the earth shall turn to the earth again: and that which is of the waters doth return into the sea.

8. 12 All bribery and injustice shall be blotted out: but true dealing shall endure for ever.

9. 13 The goods of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall vanish with noise, like a great thunder in rain.

10. 14 While he openeth his hand he shall rejoice: so shall transgressors come to nought.

11. 15 The children of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches: but are as unclean roots upon a hard rock.

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