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For grief may result in death, and a sorrowful heart saps one's strength.
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When a person is taken away, sorrow is over; but the life of the poor weighs down the heart.
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Do not give your heart to grief; drive it away, and remember your own end.
21
Do not forget, there is no coming back; you do the dead no good, and you injure yourself.
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Remember his fate, for yours is like it; yesterday it was his, and today it is yours.
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.