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

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.

¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

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.

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

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.

¹³ Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. Psalm 40 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹¹ Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:

⁸ It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

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.