8 Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the Most High God! (WEB) 9 If you are born, you will be born to a curse. If you die, a curse will be your portion. (WEB) 10 All things that are of the earth will go back to the earth; so the ungodly will go from a curse to perdition. (WEB)
Sirach 41:8–10
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