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Sirach 40:1-3
Common English Bible
Sirach 40:1-3
Common English Bible
Life’s joys and miseries
40 Hard work was created
for every person,
and a heavy yoke lies upon
human beings,
from the day when they leave
their mother’s womb
until the day when they return
to the mother of all.
2 Anxious expectation—the day of death—
fills their inner musings
and plants fear in their hearts.[a]
3 From the person who sits
upon a glorious throne
down to the person brought low
in dust and ashes,
Footnotes
- Sirach 40:2 Gk uncertain
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