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19 when he says, “I have found rest,
    and now I shall enjoy[a] my goods!”
he does not know how much time will pass
    until he leaves them to others and dies.
20 Stand by your covenant[b] and attend to it,
    and grow old in your work.

21 Do not wonder at the works of a sinner,
    but trust in the Lord and keep at your toil;
for it is easy in the sight of the Lord
    to enrich a poor man quickly and suddenly.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 11:19 Gk eat of
  2. Sirach 11:20 Heb task

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