15 In the day of your affliction it will be remembered for you, as fair weather upon ice, so your sins will also melt away. (WEB)
Sirach 3:15
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Job 11:15–17
15 then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid. 16 For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by. 17 Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
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2 Enoch 51:2–4
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2 Esdras 2:26–28
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Sirach 35:19–20
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Sirach 38:21–23
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