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Sirach 40:1-3 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. A great occupation was created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day of their departure from their mother's womb, even until the day of their burial into the mother of all:

2. their thoughts, and the fears of their heart, their imagined expectations, and the day of their end,

3. from him who sits upon a glorious throne, even to him who is humbled in earth and ashes,

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