20 Don’t give your heart to sorrow. Put it away, remembering the end. (WEB)
Sirach 38:20
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Sirach 30:20–22
20 seeing with his eyes and groaning, like a eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning. (WEB) 21 Don’t give your soul to sorrow. Don’t afflict yourself deliberately. (WEB) 22 Gladness of heart is the life of a man. Cheerfulness of a man lengthens his days. (WEB)
Ecclesiastes 11:9–10
9 Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment. 10 So banish sorrow from your heart,…
Sirach 2:1–3
1 My son, if you come to serve the Lord, prepare your soul for temptation. (WEB) 2 Set your heart aright, constantly endure, and don’t make haste in time of calamity. (WEB) 3 Cling to him, and don’t depart, that you may be increased at your latter end. (WEB)
2 Esdras 8:53–55
53 The root of evil is sealed up from you. Weakness is done away from you, and death is hidden. Hell and corruption have fled into forgetfulness. (WEB) 54 Sorrows have passed away, and in the end, the treasure of immortality is shown. (WEB) 55 Therefore ask no more questions concer… (WEB)
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.
2 Esdras 10:14–16
14 Then say I to you, ‘Just as you have brought forth with sorrow, even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, people, ever since the beginning to him who made her.’ (WEB) 15 Now therefore keep your sorrow to yourself, and bear with a good courage the adversities… (WEB) 16 … (WEB)
Proverbs 14:12–14
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. 13 Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow. 14 The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
Sirach 28:5–7
5 He himself, being flesh, nourishes wrath. Who will make atonement for his sins? (WEB) 6 Remember your last end, and stop enmity. Remember corruption and death, and be true to the commandments. (WEB) 7 Remember the commandments, and don’t be angry with your neighbor. Remember t… (WEB)
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