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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 10:9 Heb: Gk is obscure
  2. Sirach 10:10 Heb Vg: Gk is uncertain

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