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19 Of what use is an offering of fruit
to an idol?
    It can’t eat or smell.
    The person whom the Lord punishes
    is like this,
20     looking with the eyes and groaning
    like a eunuch who embraces
    a young woman and groans.[a]

21 Don’t let grief take you over,
    and don’t distress yourself on purpose.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 30:20 LXXb adds 30:20c So is the one who makes judgments under pressure.

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