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Sirach 10:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

9 How can dust and ashes be proud?
    Even in life the human body decays.[a]
10 A long illness baffles the physician;[b]
    the king of today will die tomorrow.
11 For when one is dead
    he inherits maggots and vermin[c] and worms.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 10:9 Heb: Meaning of Gk uncertain
  2. Sirach 10:10 Heb Lat: Meaning of Gk uncertain
  3. Sirach 10:11 Heb: Gk wild animals
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