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15 Will you not leave the fruit of your labours to another,
    and what you acquired by toil to be divided by lot?
16 Give, and take, and indulge yourself,
    because in Hades one cannot look for luxury.
17 All living beings become old like a garment,
    for the decree[a] from of old is, ‘You must die!’

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 14:17 Heb: Gk covenant

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