For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house— for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’
I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
“O my God,” I say, “take me not away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all generations!”
But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
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