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"What
is your life? It is a vapor that appeareth for awhile and then
vanishes away. Your days are as a hand's breadth. All the
glory of man is as the flower of the grass. All flesh is as
grass. The grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth
away, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. Man
is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward. "He that
being often reproved, hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be
destroyed, and that without remedy! Boast not thyself of
tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth, for
a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things
which he possesses: beware of covetousness! We brought nothing
into this world and we can take nothing out." Job said
for all of us, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither." God said to
a rich man, "Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be
required of thee and then whose shall these things be? 'They
will bury you just like they did your
ancestors. Next
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