Sirach 10:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁸Sovereignty passes from nation to nation
    on account of injustice and insolence and wealth.^[a]
⁹How can dust and ashes be proud?
    Even in life the human body decays.^[b]
¹⁰A long illness baffles the physician;^[c]
    the king of today will die tomorrow.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

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.
Sirach 10:9 Heb: Meaning of Gk uncertain
Sirach 10:10 Heb Lat: Meaning of Gk uncertain

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.