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19 When a person is taken away, sorrow is over;
    but the life of the poor weighs down the heart.
20 Do not give your heart to grief;
    drive it away, and remember your own end.
21 Do not forget, there is no coming back;
    you do the dead[a] no good, and you injure yourself.

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  1. Sirach 38:21 Gk him

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