Wisdom 16:13-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
13 [a]For you have dominion over life and death;(A)
you lead down to the gates of Hades and lead back.
14 Human beings, however, may kill another with malice,
but they cannot bring back the departed spirit,
or release the soul that death has confined.
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