TSK · Ecclesiastes 7:2

“Assemble and listen, you sons of Jacob; listen to Israel, your father.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let the end of my life be like theirs.”

he said to them,“Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.

So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

You said,‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ You did not think about these things; you did not consider how it would turn out.

Here then, this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘Think carefully about what you are doing.

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,