If they obey and serve [Him,] They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

For [there are] no pangs in their death, But their strength [is] firm.

"For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

"and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

'And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, [and] be merry." '

"But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?'

"Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

"but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed [them] all.