⁶In an assembly of sinners a fire will be kindled,
and in a disobedient nation wrath was kindled.
⁷He was not propitiated for the ancient giants
who revolted in their might.
⁸He did not spare the neighbours of Lot,
whom he loathed on account of their insolence.
⁹He showed no pity for a nation devoted to destruction,
for those destroyed in their sins;
¹⁰nor for the six hundred thousand men on foot,
who rebelliously assembled in their stubbornness.
¹¹Even if there is only one stiff-necked person,
it will be a wonder if he remains unpunished.
For mercy and wrath are with the Lord;
he is mighty to forgive, and he pours out wrath.
¹²As great as his mercy, so great is also his reproof;
he judges a man according to his deeds.
¹³The sinner will not escape with his plunder,
and the patience of the godly will not be frustrated.
¹⁴He will make room for every act of mercy;
every one will receive in accordance with his deeds.

¹⁷Do not say, "I shall be hidden from the Lord,
and who from on high will remember me?
Among so many people I shall not be known,
for what is my soul in the boundless creation?
¹⁸Behold, heaven and the highest heaven,
the abyss and the earth, will tremble at his visitation.
¹⁹The mountains also and the foundations of the earth
shake with trembling when he looks upon them.
²⁰And no mind will reflect on this.
Who will ponder his ways?
²¹Like a tempest which no man can see,
so most of his works are concealed.
²²Who will announce his acts of justice?
Or who will await them? For the covenant is far off."
²³This is what one devoid of understanding thinks;
a senseless and misguided man thinks foolishly.

Wisdom in creation.  Sir.16.24-17.14

²⁴Listen to me, my son, and acquire knowledge,
and pay close attention to my words.
²⁵I will impart instruction by weight,
and declare knowledge accurately.

²⁶The works of the Lord have existed from the beginning by his creation,
and when he made them, he determined their divisions.
²⁷He arranged his works in an eternal order,
and their dominion for all generations;
they neither hunger nor grow weary,
and they do not cease from their labours.
²⁸They do not crowd one another aside,
and they will never disobey his word.
²⁹After this the Lord looked upon the earth,
and filled it with his good things;
³⁰with all kinds of living beings he covered its surface,
and to it they return.