Ben Sira 17:4

4 He put the fear of them in all living beings, and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.

Ben Sira 17:4 In-Context

2 He gave them a fixed number of days, but granted them authority over everything on the earth.

3 He endowed them with strength like his own, and made them in his own image.

4 He put the fear of them in all living beings, and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.

6 Discretion and tongue and eyes, ears and a mind for thinking he gave them.

Footnotes

• [a]. Syr: Gk [him]
• [b]. Other ancient authorities add as verse 5, [They obtained the use of the five faculties of the Lord; as sixth he distributed to them the gift of mind, and as seventh, reason, the interpreter of one's faculties.]