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Sirach 10:10-12
Wycliffe Bible
Sirach 10:10-12
Wycliffe Bible
10 Each power is short life (or is short-lived); long sickness grieveth the leech (or the physician). A leech (or The physician) cutteth away short sickness; so and a king is today, and tomorrow he shall die. [Of each mightihood short life; longer infirmity grieveth the leech. Short sickness the leech cutteth off; so and a king today is, and tomorrow shall die.]
11 Forsooth when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms.
12 The beginning of (the) pride of man was to be apostate from God; for his heart went away from him that made him. [The beginning of the pride of man to go backward from God; for from him that made him his heart went away.]
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2001 by Terence P. Noble