Sirach 14:17–18

17 All living beings become old like a garment,

for the decree from of old is, “You must surely die!”

18 Like flourishing leaves on a spreading tree

which sheds some and puts forth others,

so are the generations of flesh and blood:

one dies and another is born.

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