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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.
32 He marshals the host of the height of heaven;
    but all men are dust and ashes.

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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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