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He gave to men[a] few days, a limited time,
    but granted them authority over the things upon the earth.[b]
He endowed them with strength like his own,[c]
    and made them in his own image.
He placed the fear of them[d] in all living beings,
    and granted them dominion over beasts and birds.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 17:2 Gk them
  2. Sirach 17:2 Gk it
  3. Sirach 17:3 Cn: Gk proper to them
  4. Sirach 17:4 Syr: Gk him
  5. Sirach 17:4 Other authorities add They obtained the use of the five operations of the Lord; as sixth he distributed to them the gift of mind, and as seventh reason, the interpreter of his operations.

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