Sirach 17:31
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What shines brighter than the sun? Even that fails. Flesh and blood will hanker after evil.
He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are earth and ashes.
Nothing is brighter than the sun, but even the sun's light fails during an eclipse. How much easier it is for human thoughts to be eclipsed by evil!
Is anything brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed. How worthless then the thoughts of flesh and blood!
Is anything brighter than the sun? Yet it is subject to eclipse. Thus, flesh and blood devise evil plans.
What is brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed. So flesh and blood devise evil.
What is brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed. So flesh and blood devise evil.
What is brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed. So flesh and blood devise evil.
What is brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed. So flesh and blood devise evil.
What is brighter than the sun? Yet its light fails. So flesh and blood devise evil.
What is brighter than the sun? Yet its light fails. So flesh and blood devise evil.
What is clearer [or more clear] than the sun? and this shall fail; either [or] what is worse than that, that flesh and blood thought out? and of this he shall be reproved.
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