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Sirach 41:5-13 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

5. Do not choose to dread the judgment of death. Remember the things that occurred before you, and the things that will occur after you. This judgment is from the Lord upon all flesh.

6. And what will happen to you is well-pleasing to the Most High, whether in ten, or one hundred, or one thousand years.

7. For death is no indictment of life.

8. The sons of sinners, and those who pass their time in the manner of the houses of the impious, become sons of abominations.

9. The inheritance of the sons of sinners will perish, and continual disgrace will be with their offspring.

10. The sons of an impious father will complain, for they are in disgrace because of him.

11. Woe to you, impious men, who have abandoned the law of the Most High Lord!

12. And when you are born, you will be born into a curse; and when you die, your portion will be in a curse.

13. All things that are from the earth shall return to the earth. Similarly, the impious will proceed from a curse unto perdition.

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