Sirach 40:11
Good News Translation
Everything that comes from the earth goes back to the earth, just as all water flows into the sea.

New Revised Standard Version
All that is of earth returns to earth, and what is from above returns above.

Contemporary English Version
Animals and humans were created from the soil, and will return to it, just as water returns to the sea.

New American Bible
All that is of earth returns to earth, and what is from above returns above.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall return to the sea.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall return to the sea.

Sirach 40:9
Moreover, death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, oppressions, famine, and affliction, and scourges:

Sirach 40:10
All these things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes came the flood.

Sirach 40:12
All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity shall stand for ever.

Sirach 40:13
The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.

Context
Sirach 40
10All these things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes came the flood. 11All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall return to the sea. 12All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity shall stand for ever.…
Cross References
Sirach 40:9
Moreover, death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, oppressions, famine, and affliction, and scourges:

Sirach 40:10
All these things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes came the flood.

Sirach 40:12
All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity shall stand for ever.

Sirach 40:13
The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 40:10
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