Sirach 28:24-26

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁴ For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass.

²⁵ The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it.

²⁶ Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame.