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Arrogance is hateful to God and people,
    and injustice is wrong to both.
Sovereignty passes from
nation to nation
    because of injustice, pride, and money.[a]
How can dust and ashes be arrogant?
    Even when they are alive,
    human bodies are decaying.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 10:8 LXXb adds For there is nothing more lawless than love of money, because such people put their own souls up for sale.
  2. Sirach 10:9 Heb; LXX I threw off its entrails.

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