Sirach 10:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁹How can dust and ashes be proud?
    Even in life the human body decays.^[a]
¹⁰A long illness baffles the physician;^[b]
    the king of today will die tomorrow.
¹¹For when one is dead
    he inherits maggots and vermin^[c] and worms.

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Footnotes

Sirach 10:9 Heb: Meaning of Gk uncertain
Sirach 10:10 Heb Lat: Meaning of Gk uncertain
Sirach 10:11 Heb: Gk wild animals

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