5 regarding these things, nor afflict thyself because of those which have been. For now it is the consummation of time that should be considered, whether of business, or of prosperity, or of shame, (2BA) 6 and not the beginning thereof. Because if a man be prospered in his beginnings and shamefully (2BA) 7 entreated in his old age, he forgets all the prosperity that he had. And again, if a man is shamefully entreated in his beginnings, and at his end is prospered, he remembereth not again his evil (2BA)
2 Baruch 19:5–7
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