Sirach 30:19–25
19What does an offering profit an idol? For it can’t eat or smell. So is he who is punished by the Lord,↗
20seeing with his eyes and groaning, like a eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning.↗
21Don’t give your soul to sorrow. Don’t afflict yourself deliberately.↗
22Gladness of heart is the life of a man. Cheerfulness of a man lengthens his days.↗
23Love your own soul, and comfort your heart. Remove sorrow far from you, for sorrow has destroyed many, and there is no profit in it.↗
24Envy and wrath shorten life. Anxiety brings old age before its time.↗
25Those who are cheerful and merry will benefit from their food.↗
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