OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 38:20

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20

Don’t give your heart to sorrow. Put it away, remembering the end.

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Verse 20. Aside, in solitude.—Substance; or what the poor has to live on, will seem sweet or bitter according as he is affected with joy or grief.

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