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.
69
And if after death we were not to come into judgment, perhaps it would have been better for us.”
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.