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So
aI congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.
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Job 3:11-26, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Ecclesiastes 7:1
Job 3
11
"aWhy did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
12
"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
13
"For now I awould have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
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With akings and with bcounselors of the earth, Who rebuilt cruins for themselves;
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Or with aprinces bwho had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.
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"Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.
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"There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at arest.
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"The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19
"The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.
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"Why is alight given to him who suffers, And life to the bitter of soul,
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Who along for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for bhidden treasures,
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Who rejoice greatly, And exult when they find the grave?
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"Why is light given to a man awhose way is hidden, And whom bGod has hedged in?
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"For amy groaning comes at the sight of my food, And bmy cries pour out like water.
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"For awhat I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me.
26
"I aam not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes."
Ecclesiastes 2
17
So I ahated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 7
1
A agood name is better than a good ointment, And the bday of one's death is better than the day of one's birth.