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God created everything so that it might exist. The creative forces at work in the cosmos are life-giving. There is no destructive poison in them. The underworld[a] doesn't rule on earth.
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Don't seek death through the error of your ways. Don't invite destruction on yourself by what you do.
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God didn't make death. God takes no delight in the ruin of anything that lives.
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God created everything so that it might exist. The creative forces at work in the cosmos are life-giving. There is no destructive poison in them. The underworld doesn't rule on earth.
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In spite of this, the ungodly called out to death by what they did and said. Thinking that death was their friend, they lost their resolve and made a treaty with death. Let them have each other: death and the ungodly belong together!