Their tombs are their homes forever, their dwellings through all generations, “They named countries after themselves”
Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain also became the founder of a city, which he named after his son Enoch.
Lord, let me know my end, the number of my days, that I may learn how frail I am.
But he will join the company of his fathers, never again to see the light.
Yet like any mortal you shall die; like any prince you shall fall.”
Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. The Uncertain Future and the Sages.
for: “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the flower wilts;