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How can dust and ashes be proud?
    Even in life the human body is infested with worms.[a](A)

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  1. 10.9 Heb: Meaning of Gk uncertain
'Sirach 10:9' not found for the version: New International Version.

10 A long illness mocks the physician;
    the king of today will die tomorrow.(A)

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'Sirach 10:10' not found for the version: New International Version.

37 I, like my brothers, give up body and life for the laws of our ancestors, appealing to God to show mercy soon to our nation and by trials and plagues to make you confess that he alone is God,(A)

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'2 Maccabees 7:37' not found for the version: New International Version.