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There is a time when in their hands there is good success.
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For they shall also pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper that, which they give for ease
and remedy to prolong life.
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He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician.
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My son, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great
harm thyself; and then cover his body according to the custom, and neglect not his burial.
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Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as he is worthy, and that a day or
two, lest thou be evil spoken of: and then comfort thyself for thy heaviness.
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For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.
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In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poor is the curse of the heart.
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Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and member the last end.
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Forget it not, for there is no turning again: thou shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so; yesterday for me, and to day for thee.
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When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his Spirit
is departed from him.
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The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business
shall become wise.
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How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth
oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
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He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder.
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So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and grave
seals, and are diligent to make great variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and watch
to finish a work:
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The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire
wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil
is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth
his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly:
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So doth the potter sitting at his work, and turning the wheel about with his feet, who is alway
carefully set at his work, and maketh all his work by number;
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He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet; he applieth
himself to lead it over; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace:
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All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his work.
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Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up
and down:
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They shall not be sought for in publick counsel, nor sit high in the congregation: they shall
not sit on the judges' seat, nor understand the sentence of judgment: they cannot declare justice and
judgment; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.
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But they will maintain the state of the world, and
all
their desire is in the work of their craft.
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