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29 How great is the mercy of the Lord,
    and his forgiveness for those who turn to him!
30 For all things cannot be in men,[a]
    since a son of man is not immortal.
31 What is brighter than the sun? Yet its light fails.[b]
    So flesh and blood devise evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 17:30 The Greek text of this line is uncertain
  2. Sirach 17:31 Or suffers eclipse

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