²³ But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.

³⁵ And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

⁸ The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

⁹ A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

¹⁰ He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

²³ For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

⁴³ And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.