^{18 Ref} And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

^{19 Ref} As often as it passeth though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message.

^{20 Ref} For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.