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your deeds in heaven from the sun and the moon and the stars in reference to your sins, because ye pass judgment on the earth on the just. 11. And he will call to testify over you each cloud and fog and dew and rain, for they all will be kept back from you that they do not descend upon you; and shall they not think of your sins? 12. And now give presents to the rain that it may not be kept back from descending upon you, or the dew when it has received gold or silver from you. 13. When hoar-frost and snow and their coldness descend upon you, and all the winds of the snow and all their plagues, in those days ye will not be able to stand before them. of heaven, and prevents the rain and the dew from descending upon the earth on your account, what will ye do then? 3. And when he sends his anger over you and over all your deeds, ye cannot petition him, because ye have spoken concerning his justice proudly and boldly, and ye shall have no peace. 4. And do ye not see the kings of the ships, how their ships are chased about by waves, and tremble before the winds, and are troubled? 5. And therefore they fear, because all their good treasures go into the sea with them, and they are troubled in their hearts that the sea might swallow them and they perish in it. 6. Is not all the sea and all its waters and all its movements a work of the Most High, and has he not sealed all its doings, and bound it all in the sand? 7. It dries up at his threats, and is afraid, and all its fish die, and all that is in it; and ye sinners who are on the earth do not fear him. 8. Has he not made heaven and earth, and all that is in them? And who has given understanding and wisdom to all who move on the earth, and to those on the sea? 9. Do not the kings of the ships fear the sea? but the sinners do not fear the Most High. Cuap. 102.—And in those days when he brings a painful fire upon you, whither will ye flee, and where will ye save yourselves? and when he brings his word upon you, will ye then not be aghast and fear? 2. And all the luminaries will tremble in great fear, and all the earth will be aghast, and will tremble and quake. 3. And all the angels will fulfil their commands, and will desire to hide themselves from before him, great in glory, and the children of the earth will tremble and shake; and ye, sinners, are cursed to eternity, and will have no peace. 4. Fear not, ye souls of the just, and hope for the day of your death in justice. 5. And be no sorrowful that your souls descend into Sheol, in great trouble and lamentation and sorrow, and in grief, and that your bodies have not found it in your life as your goodness deserved, bu rather on a day on which ye were like the sinners, and on the day of the curse and the punishment. 6. And when ye die the sinners speak over you: “As we die the just die, and what benefit have they in their deeds? 7. Behold, as we, they have died in anxiety and in darkness, and what advantage have they over us? from now on we are equal. 8. And wha will they receive, and what will they see to eternity? For behold they too have died, and from now on to eternity they do not see the light.” 9. I tell you sinners: it is sufficient for you to eat and drink and to make a man naked, and to rob and to sin, and to acquire wealth, and to see good days. 10. Have ye seen the just, how their end was peace, because no oppression was found in them to the day of their death? 11. “And they were destroyed, and became as CHAP. 101.—Notice the heavens, all ye children of heaven, and all the doings of the Most High, and have fear of him, and do no evil before him. 2. When he locks the windows 8. Has he not made heaven and earth, and all that is in them?