8 Some of them have left a name behind them, so that others declare their praises. (WEB) 9 But of others, there is no memory. They perished as though they had not been. They become as though they had not been born, they and their children after them. (WEB) 10 But these were men of mercy, whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten. (WEB)
Sirach 44:8–10
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Sirach 44:13–15
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Baruch 6:46–48
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2 Enoch 35:2–3
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Job 18:16–18
16 The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away. 17 The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land. 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Ecclesiastes 1:10–12
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Proverbs 10:6–8
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Baruch 3:18–20
18 For those who diligently sought silver, and were so anxious, and whose works are past finding out, (WEB) 19 they have vanished and gone down to Hades, and others have come up in their place. (WEB) 20 Younger men have seen the light and lived upon the earth, but they haven’t know… (WEB)
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