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Do not be afraid of death's decree. Remember that it came to those before you and will come to those after you.
4
The Lord has decreed it for every living creature. Who are you to object to what the Most High wishes? In the world of the dead no one will care whether you lived ten years, a hundred, or a thousand.
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The children of sinners, brought up in ungodly surroundings, turn out to be hateful people.
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They will lose whatever they inherit, and their own descendants will live in permanent disgrace.
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The children will put the blame for their disgrace on their ungodly parents.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.