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15 Do not hate toilsome labor,
    or farm work, which were created by the Most High.
16 Do not count yourself among the crowd of sinners;
    remember that wrath does not delay.
17 Humble yourself greatly,
    for the punishment of the ungodly is fire and worms.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 7:17 The Hebrew text reads for the expectation of man is worms

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