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17 More and more, humble your pride;
    what awaits mortals is worms.[a](A)

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  1. 7:17 Worms: i.e., corruption; the Septuagint adds “fire.”
'Sirach 7:17' not found for the version: New International Version.

24 [a]They shall go out and see the corpses(A)
    of the people who rebelled against me;
For their worm shall not die,
    their fire shall not be extinguished;
    and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.

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  1. 66:24 God’s enemies lie dead outside the walls of the New Jerusalem; just as in the past, corpses, filth and refuse lay in the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) outside the city; cf. 34:1–4; 2 Kgs 23:10.

24 “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies(A) of those who rebelled(B) against me; the worms(C) that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched,(D) and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

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48 where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’(A)

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48 where

“‘the worms that eat them do not die,
    and the fire is not quenched.’[a](A)

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  1. Mark 9:48 Isaiah 66:24