¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters: `So doth' Sheol `those that' have sinned.

¹⁴ They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

¹³ They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

²² And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom: and the rich man also died, and was buried.

²⁰ But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

⁴ For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

⁵ For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

⁶ As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.

³² The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.

² As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

⁸ `Let them be' as a snail which melteth and passeth away, `Like' the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

³² Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

³³ The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

³⁴ How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth `only' falsehood?

²³ One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:

¹⁵ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

¹⁶ Which are black by reason of the ice, `And' wherein the snow hideth itself:

¹⁷ What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.