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Sirach 10:9-11
Revised Standard Version
Sirach 10:9-11
Revised Standard Version
9 How can he who is dust and ashes be proud?
for even in life his bowels decay.[a]
10 A long illness baffles the physician;[b]
the king of today will die tomorrow.
11 For when a man is dead,
he will inherit creeping things, and wild beasts, and worms.
Footnotes
- Sirach 10:9 Heb: Gk is obscure
- Sirach 10:10 Heb Vg: Gk is uncertain
Revised Standard Version (RSV)
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