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* For the ungodly said , reasoning with themselves , but not aright , Our life is short and tedious , and in the death of a man there is no remedy : neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave . * For we are born at all adventure : and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been : for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke , and a little spark in the moving of our heart : * Which being extinguished , our body shall be turned into ashes , and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air , * And our name shall be forgotten in time , and no man shall have our works in remembrance , and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud , and shall be dispersed as a mist , that is driven away with the beams of the sun , and overcome with the heat thereof . * For our time is a very shadow that passeth away ; and after our end there is no returning : for it is fast sealed , so that no man cometh again . * Come on therefore , let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth . * Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us : * Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds , before they be withered : * Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness : let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place : for this is our portion , and our lot is this . * Let us oppress the poor righteous man , let us not spare the widow , nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged . * Let our strength be the law of justice : for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth . * Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous ; because he is not for our turn , and he is clean contrary to our doings : he upbraideth us with our offending the law , and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education . * He professeth to have the knowledge of God : and he calleth himself the child of the Lord . * He was made to reprove our thoughts . * He is grievous unto us even to behold : for his life is not like other men 's , his ways are of another fashion . * We are esteemed of him as counterfeits : he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness : he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed , and maketh his boast that God is his father . * Let us see if his words be true : and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him . * For if the just man be the son of God , he will help him , and deliver him from the hand of his enemies . * Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture , that we may know his meekness , and prove his patience . * Let us condemn him with a shameful death : for by his own saying he shall be respected . * Such things they did imagine , and were deceived : for their own wickedness hath blinded them . * As for the mysteries of God , they kn ew them not : neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness , nor discerned a reward for blameless souls . * For God created man to be immortal , and made him to be an image of his own eternity . * Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world : and they that do hold of his side do find it .

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