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Death is a shadow that always follows the body. Death is a shadow that always follows the body.

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death | dying

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Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom... - MORE Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness, the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.

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dying | death

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All that people have they will give to save their lives. All that people have they will give to save their lives.

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possessions | life | death

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I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

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...then he slept with his ancestors... ...then he slept with his ancestors...

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There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear... - MORE There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there, and the slaves are free from their masters.

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afterlife | death

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[God] destroys both the blameless and the wicked. [God] destroys both the blameless and the wicked.

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God | death

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Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I ha... - MORE Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them"; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with the rain; in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly; when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets; before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

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old age | death

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...there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root gro... - MORE ...there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant. But mortals die, and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?

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And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive; but better than both is the on... - MORE And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive; but better than both is the one who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

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evil | death | life

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