Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.
He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?
There are many who say, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!” You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.
“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.
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