OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 39:34

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34

No one can say, “This is worse than that,” for they will all be well approved in their time.

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Verse 34. Destruction, and final ruin of the impious, or at the least day. Calmet.—Appease. God is pleased with the execution of justice. Menochius.—Yet the devils cannot obtain a reconciliation; neither do they act to please God, having their wills obstinately bent against his, though they be forced to obey. Bible.

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