Your beginnings will seem humble,
    so prosperous(A) will your future be.(B)

“Ask the former generation(C)
    and find out what their ancestors learned,
for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,(D)
    and our days on earth are but a shadow.(E)

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Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

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