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Ecclesiasticus 37:28

The life of a man is in the number of his days: but the days of Israel are innumerable.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Vita viri in numero dierum : dies autem Israƫl innumerabiles sunt.
Septuagint (Swete)
Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.

Haydock's commentary

But. Greek, "And." The wisest must soon die: Even the race of Israel shall end: But the virtuous shall be for ever remembered, ver. 29. (Haydock)

The blessed in heaven live for ever. (Worthington)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.

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