¹⁸ So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

²⁹ I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,^{(A) 30} and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no possessions,