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10 A long illness baffles the physician;[a]
    the king of today will die tomorrow.
11 For when a man is dead,
    he will inherit creeping things, and wild beasts, and worms.
12 The beginning of man’s pride is to depart from the Lord;
    his heart has forsaken his Maker.

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  1. Sirach 10:10 Heb Vg: Gk is uncertain

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