Sirach 17:4

4 God made all living beings afraid of them, so that they might exercise dominion over the animals and birds.

Sirach 17:4 In-Context

2 God gave human beings a set number of days and a fixed time, and he gave them authority over the things that are upon the earth.

3 God endowed them with strength like his, and he made them according to his image.

4 God made all living beings afraid of them, so that they might exercise dominion over the animals and birds.

6 God gave them the capacity to plan, a tongue and eyes, ears and a mind for thinking.

Footnotes

• [a] LXXb adds 17:5 They received the use of the Lord’s five faculties, but he apportioned to them the gift of mind as a sixth, and the seventh, reason, the interpreter of his faculties.