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Great travail is created for every man, and a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother's womb, till the day that they return to the mother of all things.
2
Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death, trouble their thoughts and cause fear of heart.
3
From him that sitteth on a throne of glory, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes;
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from him that weareth purple and a crown, unto him that is clothed with a linen frock;
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wrath and envy, trouble and unquietness, fear of death and anger and strife, and in the time of rest upon his bed, his night sleep changeth his knowledge.
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A little or nothing is his rest, and afterward he is in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he were escaped out of a battle.
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When all is safe, he awaketh, and marveleth that the fear was nothing.
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Such things happen unto all flesh, both man and beast, and that is sevenfold more upon sinners.
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Death and bloodshed, strife and sword, calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge--