66
It is much better with them than with us; for they do not look for a judgment, and they do not know of any torment or salvation promised to them after death.
64
But now the mind grows with us, and therefore we are tormented, because we perish and we know it.
65
Let the human race lament, but let the wild animals of the field be glad; let all who have been born lament, but let the cattle and the flocks rejoice.
66
It is much better with them than with us; for they do not look for a judgment, and they do not know of any torment or salvation promised to them after death.
67
What does it profit us that we shall be preserved alive but cruelly tormented?
68
For all who have been born are entangled in[r] iniquities, and are full of sins and burdened with transgressions.
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