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Let us take our fill of costly wine and perfumes, and let no flower of spring pass by us.
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Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
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Let none of us fail to share in our revelry, everywhere let us leave signs of enjoyment, because this is our portion, and this our lot.
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Let us oppress the righteous poor man; let us not spare the widow nor regard the gray hairs of the aged.
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But let our might be our law of right, for what is weak proves itself to be useless.
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"Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training.
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He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord.
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He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
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the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange.
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We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father.
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Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;