Sirach 34:28-30

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁸When one builds and another tears down,
    what do they gain but hard work?
²⁹When one prays and another curses,
    to whose voice will the Lord listen?
³⁰If one washes after touching a corpse, and touches it again,
    what has been gained by washing?

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