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For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright: "Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy; neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.
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For we are born at random, and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been. For the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart,
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which, being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air.
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And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance; and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.
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For our time is a very shadow that passeth away, and after our end there is no returning; for it is sealed fast, so that no man cometh again.
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