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What need for man to ask questions that are beyond his scope? There is no knowing how best his life should be spent, this brief pilgrimage that passes like a shadow, and is gone. And what will befall after his death, in this world beneath the sun, who can tell? (Ecclesiastes 7, 1)
There is no embalming like a good name left behind; man’s true birthday is the day of his death. (Ecclesiastes 7, 2)
Better a visit paid where men mourn, than where they feast; it will put thee in mind of the end that awaits us all, admonish the living with the foreknowledge of death. (Ecclesiastes 7, 3)
And this I have ascertained; death itself is not so cruel as woman’s heart that wheedles and beguiles, as woman’s clutches that release their captive never. God’s friends escape her; of sinners she makes an easy prey. (Ecclesiastes 7, 27)
The breath of life man must resign at last; the day of his death he cannot determine; nor ever does war give release from service, nor sin discharge to the sinner. (Ecclesiastes 8, 8)
They live under sentence of death; and when death comes, of nothing will they be aware any longer; no reward can they receive, now that every trace of them has vanished away; (Ecclesiastes 9, 5)
Hold me close to thy heart, close as locket or bracelet fits; not death itself is so strong as love, not the grave itself cruel as love unrequited; the torch that lights it is a blaze of fire. (Song of Solomon 8, 6)
Death for its goal, is not life’s aim missed? Labours he well, that labours to bring doom about his ears? (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 12)
Death was never of God’s fashioning; not for his pleasure does life cease to be; (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 13)
It is the wicked that have brought death on themselves, by word and deed of their own; court death, and melt away in its embrace, keep tryst with it, and lay claim to its partnership. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 16)
Reason they offer, yet reason all amiss. Their hearts tell them, So brief our time here, so full of discomfort, and death brings no remedy! Never a man yet made good his title to have come back from the grave! (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 1)
Sentenced let him be to a shameful death; by his own way of it, he shall find deliverance.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 20)
