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Sirach 14:18-20
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Sirach 14:18-20
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
18 Like abundant leaves on a spreading tree
that sheds some and puts forth others,
so are the generations of flesh and blood:
one dies and another is born.
19 Every work decays and ceases to exist,
and the one who made it will pass away with it.
The Happiness of Seeking Wisdom
20 Happy is the person who meditates on[a] wisdom
and reasons intelligently,
Footnotes
- Sirach 14:20 Other ancient authorities read dies in
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)
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