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Ecclesiastes 7:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

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In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end!

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law.

Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things.

Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.

And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.

And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever. Thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter end.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just; and my last end be like to them.

If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.

For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.

Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.

And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?

But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.

This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.

And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them and to eat and drink:

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.




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