2 BARUCH 19
19:1 And HE answered and said to me: Therefore he appointed a covenant for them at that time and said, "Behold, I appoint for you Life and death," and HE called heaven and earth as a witness against them.
19:2 For he knew that his time was short, but that heaven and earth will stay forever.
19:3 They, however, sinned and trespassed after his death, although they knew that they had the Torah to reprove them and that Light in which nothing could err, apart from the spheres, which witnessed, and ME. And I judge everything that exists.
19:4 You, however, should not think about this in your heart and you should not be afflicted because of the things which have been.
19:5 For now the end of times is at stake whether it be property, happiness, or shame; and not its beginning.
19:6 For when a man is happy in his youth and is treated badly in his old age, he forgets all happiness he possessed.
19:7 And further, when a man is badly treated in his youth but will be happy in the end, he does not remember his unhappiness anymore.
19:8 And further, listen: Even if everyone had been happy continually since the day death was decreed against those who trespassed, but was destroyed in the end, everything would have been in vain.