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Sirach 30:19
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19What good doeth the offering unto an idol? for neither can it eat nor smell: so is he that is persecuted of the Lord.
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17Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness.
18Delicates poured upon a mouth shut up are as messes of meat set upon a grave.
— Sirach 30:19 —
20He seeth with his eyes and groaneth, as an eunuch that embraceth a virgin and sigheth.
21Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel.