Wisdom 11:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶ so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.
¹⁷ For your all-powerful hand,
which created the world out of formless matter,
did not lack the means to send upon them a multitude of bears, or bold lions,
¹⁸ or newly-created unknown beasts full of rage,
or such as breathe out fiery breath,
or belch forth a thick pall of smoke,
or flash terrible sparks from their eyes;