Sirach 39:27

²⁵For the good are good things created from the beginning: so evil things for sinners.

²⁶The principal things for the whole use of man’s life are water, fire, iron, and salt, flour of wheat, honey, milk, and the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

— Sirach 39:27 —

²⁸There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made them.

²⁹Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance;