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GREAT labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam, from the day of their coming out of their mother's womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all.
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Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of their end:
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From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes:
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From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,
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And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night changeth his knowledge.
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A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch.
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He is troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he had escaped in the day of battle. In the time of his safety he rose up, and wondereth that there is no fear: