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All lawlessness is like a two-edged sword;
    there is no healing for the wound it inflicts.

Panic and insolence will waste away riches;
    thus the house of the proud will be laid waste.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 21:4 Other ancient authorities read uprooted
'Sirach 21:3-4' not found for the version: New International Version.

An assembly of the wicked is like a bundle of tow,
    and their end is a blazing fire.
10 The way of sinners is paved with smooth stones,
    but at its end is the pit of Hades.

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'Sirach 21:9-10' not found for the version: New International Version.