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For they had maltreated him,
    who even in the womb had been consecrated a prophet,
to pluck up and ruin and destroy,
    and likewise to build and to plant.

It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory,
    which God[a] showed him above the chariot of the cherubim.
For God[b] also mentioned Job
    who held fast to all the ways of justice.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 49:8 Gk He
  2. Sirach 49:9 Gk he
  3. Sirach 49:9 Heb Compare Syr: Meaning of Gk uncertain

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