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Ben Sira 34
Ben Sira 34:23
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When one person builds and somebody else tears down, has anything been accomplished but hard work?
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Food means life itself to poor people, and taking it away from them is murder.
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It is murder to deprive someone of his living or to cheat an employee of his wages.
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When one person builds and somebody else tears down, has anything been accomplished but hard work?
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When one person blesses and somebody else curses, which one is the Lord going to listen to?
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If you touch a dead body and then purify yourself by washing, but then go and touch it again, what good did the washing do?
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.