10 righteous [as living (and) being past finding out]. For Thou alone dost live immortal and past (2BA) 11 finding out, and knowest the number of mankind. And if in time many have sinned, yet others not a few have been righteous. (2BA) 12 Thou knowest where Thou preservest the end of those who have sinned, or the consummation of (2BA) 13 those who have been righteous. For if there were this life only, which belongs to all men, nothing could be more bitter than this, (2BA) 14 For of what profit is strength that turns to sickness, Or fullness of food that turns to famine, Or beauty that turns to ugliness. (2BA) 15 For the nature of man is always changeable. For what we were formerly now we no longer are, (2BA) 17 and what we now are we shall not afterwards remain. For if a consummation had not been prepared (2BA)
2 Baruch 21:10–17
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