Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.
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TSK · Ecclesiastes 7:2
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Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!"
He said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.
So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,