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Do not say, "What do I need, and what prosperity could be mine in the future?"
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Do not say, "I have enough, and what calamity could happen to me in the future?"
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In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten, and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered.
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For it is easy in the sight of the Lord to reward a man on the day of death according to his conduct.
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The misery of an hour makes one forget luxury, and at the close of a man's life his deeds will be revealed.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the 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.