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10 A long illness baffles the physician;[a]
    the king of today will die tomorrow.
11 For when one is dead
    he inherits maggots and vermin[b] and worms.
12 The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord;
    the heart has withdrawn from its Maker.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 10:10 Heb Lat: Meaning of Gk uncertain
  2. Sirach 10:11 Heb: Gk wild animals

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