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Sirach 10:8-10
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Sirach 10:8-10
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
8 Sovereignty passes from nation to nation
on account of injustice and insolence and wealth.[a]
9 How can dust and ashes be proud?
Even in life the human body decays.[b]
10 A long illness baffles the physician;[c]
the king of today will die tomorrow.
Footnotes
- Sirach 10:8 Other ancient authorities add here or after verse 9a, Nothing is more wicked than one who loves money, for such a person puts his own soul up for sale.
- Sirach 10:9 Heb: Meaning of Gk uncertain
- Sirach 10:10 Heb Lat: Meaning of Gk uncertain
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
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