Sirach 33:12

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.

Sirach 33:12 In-Context

10 All people come from the ground, and Adam was created out of earth.
11 In the fullness of his knowledge the Lord made distinctions between them, and he made their ways different.
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.
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