²¹ Before I go whence I shall not return, `Even' to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

²³ But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

⁴ Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

²² For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

¹⁰ But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

¹¹ `As' the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

¹² So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

¹³ Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

¹⁴ If a man die, shall he live `again'? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

⁸ The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

⁶ Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?

¹¹ I said, I shall not see Jehovah, `even' Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

¹¹ Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?

¹² Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

¹³ For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

¹⁴ For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.