Sirach 17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Sirach 17

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and made them in his own image.

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and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.

6Discretion and tongue and eyes,

ears and a mind for thinking he gave them.

7 their hearts

to show them the majesty of his works.

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and he will keep a person’s kindness like the apple of his eye.

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and hate intensely what is abhorrent.

27 Ps 6.5; Bar 2.17 Who will sing praises to the Most High in Hades

in place of the living who give thanks?

28 Ps 118.17; Isa 38.19 From the dead, as from one who does not exist, thanksgiving has ceased;

those who are alive and well sing the Lord’s praises.

29 Ps 103.11; 117.2 How great is the mercy of the Lord

and his forgiveness for those who return to him!

30For not everything is within human capability,

since human beings are not immortal.

31What is brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed.

So flesh and blood devise evil.

32 Sir 10.9 He marshals the host of the height of heaven,

but all humans are dust and ashes.