⁵ Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

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.

²⁷ And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this `cometh' judgment;

²³ And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:

²⁴ but he, because he abideth for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable.

³⁶ For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

⁵² The Jews said unto him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my word, he shall never taste of death.

⁷ and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

⁵ yea, they shall be afraid of `that which is' high, and terrors `shall be' in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

¹ For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

² All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; `and' he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that `they go' to the dead.

⁴ One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.

¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

² that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:

³ knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.