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Ecclesiasticus 17:26-31 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

26. Tarry not in the error of the ungodly, give glory before death. Praise perisheth from the dead as nothing.

27. Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in health thou shalt give thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory in his mercies.

28. How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness to them that turn to him I

29. For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil.

30. What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall be eclipsed. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this shall be reproved.

31. He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are earth and ashes.

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