Sirach 40:1

Human Wretchedness

40 Hard work was created for everyone,

and a heavy yoke is laid on the children of Adam,

from the day they come forth from their mother’s womb

until the day they return toa the mother of all the living.b

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a	Other Gk and Lat authorities read are buried in
b	Heb: Gk of all