15 Don’t hate hard labor or farm work, which the Most High has created. (WEB) 16 Don’t number yourself among the multitude of sinners. Remember that wrath will not wait. (WEB) 17 Humble your soul greatly, for the punishment of the ungodly man is fire and the worm. (WEB)
Sirach 7:15–17
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Sirach 5:6–8
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Sirach 9:11–13
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Job 36:20–22
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Wisdom of Solomon 1:11–13
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Proverbs 3:24–26
24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet. 25 Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked, 26 for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
Job 19:28–29
28 If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’ 29 then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
Sirach 18:23–25
23 Before you make a vow, prepare yourself. Don’t be like a man who tests the Lord. (WEB) 24 Think about the wrath coming in the days of the end, and the time of vengeance, when he turns away his face. (WEB) 25 In the days of fullness remember the time of hunger. Remember poverty a… (WEB)
2 Esdras 16:52–54
52 For yet a little while, and iniquity will be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness will reign over us. (WEB) 53 Don’t let the sinner say that he has not sinned; for God will burn coals of fire on the head of one who says “I haven’t sinned before God and his gl… (WEB)
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