If a man dies, can he come back to life? But I will wait for better times, wait till this time of trouble is ended.

Human life is like forced army service, like a life of hard manual labor,

It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.

" LORD, how long will I live? When will I die? Tell me how soon my life will end."

And this is what it means: number, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;

"Seven times seventy years is the length of time God has set for freeing your people and your holy city from sin and evil. Sin will be forgiven and eternal justice established, so that the vision and the prophecy will come true, and the holy Temple will be rededicated.

"The king of Syria will do as he pleases. He will boast that he is greater than any god, superior even to the Supreme God. He will be able to do this until the time when God punishes him. God will do exactly what he has planned.

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself ? ' "

From one human being he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live.

Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God.

When our lives are over, do we really care whether our children are happy?

He never changes. No one can oppose him or stop him from doing what he wants to do.

He will fulfill what he has planned for me; that plan is just one of the many he has;

You set a boundary they can never pass, to keep them from covering the earth again.

When you turn away, they are afraid; when you take away your breath, they die and go back to the dust from which they came.

He looks on the people of the earth as nothing; angels in heaven and people on earth are under his control. No one can oppose his will or question what he does.

I am the living one! I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I have authority over death and the world of the dead.

"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: "This is the message from the one who is holy and true. He has the key that belonged to David, and when he opens a door, no one can close it, and when he closes it, no one can open it.