Sirach 33:12-14

Common English Bible

¹² Some of them he blessed and lifted up,
    and some he made holy
    and brought them near to himself;
    some of them he cursed, brought low,
    and expelled them from their place.
¹³ Like clay in the potter’s hand,
        shaped according to the
        potter’s pleasure,
    so are human beings
    in the hand of the one
    who made them,
        whom he repays according
        to his judgment.

¹⁴ Good is the opposite of evil,
    and life is the opposite of death;
        so the sinner is the opposite
        of the godly.