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Sovereignty passes from nation to nation
    on account of injustice and insolence and wealth.[a]
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.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Sirach 10:9 Heb: Meaning of Gk uncertain
  3. Sirach 10:10 Heb Lat: Meaning of Gk uncertain

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