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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

What will you do on the Day of Reckoning, when disaster
comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will

you leave your riches? (Isaiah, 10:3)

Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will
surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
(Proverbs, 23:5)

Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath... (Proverbs, 11:4)

A man's riches may ransom his life... (Proverbs, 13:8)

He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey
and cream. What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he
will not enjoy the profit from his trading... He cannot save
himself by his treasure. (Job, 20:17-20)

My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits
me. (Job, 17:1)

Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not contend with man for-
ever, for he is mortal..." (Genesis, 6:3)

At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and
body are spent. (Proverbs, 5:11)

Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of
what account is he? (Isaiah, 2:22)

... During the few and meaningless days he passes through
like a shadow? Who can tell him what will happen under the
Sun after he is gone? (Ecclesiastes, 6:12)

No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has
power over the day of his death... (Ecclesiastes, 8:8)

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