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Whoever builds his house with other people’s money
    is like one who gathers stones for his burial mound.[a]
An assembly of the wicked is like a bundle of tow,
    and their end is a blazing fire.
10 The way of sinners is paved with smooth stones,
    but at its end is the pit of Hades.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 21:8 Other ancient authorities read for the winter

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