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20 Do not give your heart to sorrow;
    drive it away, remembering the end of life.
21 Do not forget, there is no coming back;
    you do the dead[a] no good, and you injure yourself.
22 “Remember my doom, for yours is like it:
    yesterday it was mine, and today it is yours.”

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  1. Sirach 38:21 Gk him

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