31 What is brighter than the sun? Yet even this can be eclipsed. So flesh and blood devise evil. (WEB) 32 He looks upon the power of the height of heaven, while all men are earth and ashes. (WEB)
Sirach 17:31–32
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Greek Esther 11:10–12
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Job 20:5–7
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Job 25:4–6
4 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure? 5 If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight, 6 how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
Job 35:4–6
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