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20 Do not give your heart to grief;
    drive it away, and remember your own end.
21 Do not forget, there is no coming back;
    you do the dead[a] no good, and you injure yourself.
22 Remember his[b] fate, for yours is like it;
    yesterday it was his,[c] and today it is yours.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 38:21 Gk him
  2. Sirach 38:22 Heb: Gk my
  3. Sirach 38:22 Heb: Gk mine

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