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O death, how bitter is the reminder of you to one who lives at peace among his possessions, to a man without distractions, who is prosperous in everything, and who still has the vigor to enjoy his food!
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O death, how welcome is your sentence to one who is in need and is failing in strength, very old and distracted over everything; to one who is contrary, and has lost his patience!
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Do not fear the sentence of death; remember your former days and the end of life; this is the decree from the Lord for all flesh,
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and how can you reject the good pleasure of the Most High? Whether life is for ten or a hundred or a thousand years, there is no inquiry about it in Hades.
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The children of sinners are abominable children, and they frequent the haunts of the ungodly.
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The inheritance of the children of sinners will perish, and on their posterity will be a perpetual reproach.
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Children will blame an ungodly father, for they suffer reproach because of him.
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Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the Most High God!
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When you are born, you are born to a curse; and when you die, a curse is your lot.
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Whatever is from the dust returns to dust; so the ungodly go from curse to destruction.
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The mourning of men is about their bodies, but the evil name of sinners will be blotted out.