1 For they said within themselves, with unsound reasoning, “Our life is short and sorrowful. There is no healing when a man comes to his end, and no one was ever known who was released from Hades. (WEB) 2 Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we will be as though we had never been, because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our heart, (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 2:1–2
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2 Esdras 8:57–59
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Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–3
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Job 8:8–10
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Wisdom of Solomon 9:13–15
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2 Esdras 7:125–127
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Sirach 41:3–5
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2 Esdras 4:23–25
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