⁵⁵ O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?

¹⁴ I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

⁴⁸ What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

⁸ (Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

⁹ So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

¹⁰ For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

¹¹ The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

¹² But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

¹³ This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)

¹⁴ Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

¹⁵ But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works.

¹⁴ And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire.

¹⁴ But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.

⁵ And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:

²⁷ For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.

²³ And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.

⁵ The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

⁶ Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

⁸ No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

¹⁹ Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

¹⁵ Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

¹⁶ Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

¹⁰ And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.

¹³ His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

¹⁴ He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.