Sirach 39:29
Good News Translation
Vicious animals, scorpions, and snakes; the sword that destroys the wicked; fire, hail, famine, and disease; these have all been created as punishments.

New Revised Standard Version
Fire and hail and famine and pestilence, all these have been created for vengeance;

Contemporary English Version
God also created other things to take revenge for him-- fire and hail, along with famine and deadly diseases,

New American Bible
Fire and hail, famine and disease: these too were created for punishment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Even as he turned the waters into a dry land, and the earth was made dry: and his ways were made plain for their journey: so to sinners they are stumblingblocks in his wrath.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Even as he turned the waters into a dry land, and the earth was made dry: and his ways were made plain for their journey: so to sinners they are stumblingblocks in his wrath.

Sirach 39:27
His blessing hath overflowed like a river.

Sirach 39:28
And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him.

Sirach 39:30
Good things were created for the good from the beginning, so for the wicked, good and evil things.

Sirach 39:31
The principal things necessary for the life of men, are water, fire, and iron, salt, milk, and bread of flour, and honey, and the cluster of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

Context
Sirach 39
28And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him. 29Even as he turned the waters into a dry land, and the earth was made dry: and his ways were made plain for their journey: so to sinners they are stumblingblocks in his wrath. 30Good things were created for the good from the beginning, so for the wicked, good and evil things.…
Cross References
Sirach 39:27
His blessing hath overflowed like a river.

Sirach 39:28
And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him.

Sirach 39:30
Good things were created for the good from the beginning, so for the wicked, good and evil things.

Sirach 39:31
The principal things necessary for the life of men, are water, fire, and iron, salt, milk, and bread of flour, and honey, and the cluster of the grape, and oil, and clothing.



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Sirach 39:28
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