Ben Sira 40:11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 All that is of earth returns to earth,
and what is from above returns above.[a]
Footnotes
- 40:11 All that is of earth…returns above: a reference to bodily mortality and to the divine origin of life. Cf. 41:10; Gn 2:7; 3:19; Jb 34:14–15; Ps 104:29–30; 146:4; Eccl 12:7. The Greek and the Latin render the second half of the verse: “all waters shall return to the sea.”
Wisdom 4:19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 And they shall afterward become dishonored corpses(A)
and an unceasing mockery among the dead.
For he shall strike them down speechless and prostrate(B)
and rock them to their foundations;
They shall be utterly laid waste
and shall be in grief
and their memory shall perish.
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