Sirach 41:3–4
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Latin
3Do not fear the sentence of death;
remember your former days and the end of life;
this is the decree from the Lord for all flesh,
4and how can you reject the good pleasure of the Most High?
Whether life is for ten or a hundred or a thousand years,
there is no inquiry about it in Hades.
Copyright 1965, 1966 Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America.