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A! death, thy doom (or thy judgement) is good to a needy man, and which is made less in strengths, and faileth for age, and to whom is care of all things, and unbelieveful, that loseth (or that destroyeth) wisdom. [O! death, good is thy doom to a man needy, and that is less(en)ed in strength, failing through age, and to whom of all things is care, and to the unbelieveful, that loseth wisdom.]

Do not thou dread the doom of death, that is, set thou thee in such a state, (so) that the doom of death be good to (or for) thee; have thou mind what things were before thee, and what things shall come on (or after) thee; this doom is of the Lord to each man. [Do thou not dread the doom of death; have mind what before thee were, and what upon be to come to (or after) thee; this doom from the Lord to all flesh.]

And those things that shall come on (or after) thee in the good pleasance (or through the good pleasure) of the Highest; whether ten years, either an hundred, either a thousand. For why none accusing (or excusing) of life is in hell (or in the grave), that is, no man may excuse him(self) there, in alleging (the) goodness of (his) life. [And that shall overcome to thee in the well-pleased thing of the Highest; whether ten, or an hundred, or a thousand years. Forsooth there is not in hell accusing (or excusing) of life.]

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