Sirach 17:2-4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

² He gave them a fixed number of days,
    but granted them authority over everything on the earth.^[a]
3 He endowed them with strength like his own,^[b]
    and made them in his own image.
⁴ He put the fear of them^[c] in all living beings,
    and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.^[d]