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21 No one should ask why things are as they are;
    everything in creation has its purpose.
22 His blessings overflow like the Nile,
    enriching the world in a fertile flood.[a]
23 He turns fresh water into salt water,
    and he turns his anger on the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 39:22 Hebrew overflow...flood; Greek cover the dry land like a river and drench it like a flood.

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