They are trying to make sense of the tragedy that has befallen them, how a text like Joshua 23 and Joshua 24 would go a long way towards explaining their fate while retaining faith in Yahweh.

他们想要解释降临在他们身上的悲剧，章节如《约书亚书》第23和24章就花很大力气,来解释他们的命运，同时保持对耶和华的信仰。

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Perhaps because they have become wise in that they have learned they have moral choice. They have free will, they can defy God and God's plans for them in a way that animals and natural phenomena cannot.

也许是因为，他们在拥有智慧以后,明白他们有道德选择，他们有自由的意愿,可以反抗上帝为他们决定的命运,而这些事动物和自然无法做到的。

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The lists of reasons to kill himself were "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," "a sea of troubles," and "the heartache in the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to."

一张是要自杀的原因,“命运的种种捉弄和折磨”,“无穷尽的烦恼“,”血肉之躯必定要承受无数的,锥心之痛“

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